Miss Candy Tall Phlox Plant

Miss Candy Phlox Plant comes by her name quite honestly. Tall cones of cotton candy pink, five-petalled flowers rise above abundant pea green foliage and from a distance closely resemble that favorite confection of summertime fairs and amusement parks. Up close, the dark rose eye draws you in to partake of the signature heady fragrance of garden Phlox. Known to attract butterflies!

Companion Planting: Aster, Echinacea, Eupatorium, Fuchsia, Geranium, Salvia

Miss Candy Tall Phlox Plant Care Instructions: Keep the plant well-watered for the first 3-4 weeks. For continuous flowering keep the soil most, 2-3 inches of mulch will help. Early spring a great time to add fertilizer, another application can be applied in June. Tall phlox should have their tips trimmed back once the stems have grown about 6 inches in early spring. After the first hard frost they can be trimmed back to the ground.