Phlox paniculata 'Twinkle Cerise'

Morning Peeps #firstbloom on my #cerise phlox opening up this morning 💕 have a super Sunday 😄

Morning Keely, that's a cute name for the Phlox 💞💞💞

Morning ⛅ Keely, fab flower 💗

Afternoon Keely, will you please stop tempting me with all your different phlox 😂 this is another beauty that's going on my wish list 💕💕💕

@pelly oooohps I am partial to a phlox still got a couple more yet to flower 😬💕😂

Aaarrrgggghhhhhhh 😂😂😂

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@hayleyaj thanks sweetie 😘

I love this one. Such a pretty flower 😊😊💕💕

@midnightgardener its more cerise hard to capture on pic but it is a lovely one 🌼😘

@keely Yes some colours just don't show up properly. I found that with a rose I have, it looks quite white when I take a photo. There's no white on it at all. Strange 💕💕

Oh this is beautiful 💗💗

@pelly it was a Harrogate one from a couple of years ago 💕

#phlox #pink ❤💕❤

Love the almost metallic sheen this one has. Mine not quite awake yet! 😬

@rachelbrooks me too its only just opening up another week or so should be in full swing 💕❤

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Do love phlox they flower for ages with so many blooms 💕💕💕

Love the colour of this one. And so many flowers.

Yours is doing well. Do love this one, has an almost metallic sheen in the sun 💕

@charlotte thanks Hun yes it's full of blooms think I need some more varieties in these they love my garden as my violet one does well too 😄

@rachelbrooks I can't believe how big it's grown from autumn Rachel didn't get it all in photo there's more of it to left too no mildew either will definitely get more they flower for ages 😄

@cyndi thank you sweetie 😘

Absolutely gorgeous and so many blooms! 💕😍💕😍

Brill! 👍🏼👍🏼

@AlisaJ thank you hun it's a beauty think I'm going to get more colours in these for Summer border and bonus after a couple of years they can be split too 😄

Ooo that’s a good #tip to think about. Thanks Keely 👍🏼💖

First flowers 💞💓💞

Oh fab! You’ve added it to the encyclopaedia! I went to post mine and couldn’t be bothered entering it 🙈 did you get this from Harrogate last year? That’s where mine are from. Almost flows doesn’t it? 💕

@rachelbrooks I did Hun it's come back lovely again this year another great £1 buy 😄

Brill! 💕👏🏼 Left mine in the pots they came in over winter and thought I’d lost them... all but one survived and are all flowering too!

@rachelbrooks mine were in garden but we'll established now and survived the beast you should be ok to put them in mine went in last year when we got back 😄👍

They’re in! 👍🏼👍🏼 all going well 😘

Afternoon peeps this phlox has just had it's #chelseachop this evening as you can see the first picture shows it as it were and I have cut back to the lowest leaf node as shown in the bottom photo I only ever cut back 50% of the plant so I get a show of flowers early and later in the season as shown in the right hand picture 😄

I haven't been brave enough to try this yet but a couple of my Phlox are really quite big now and seeing this has given me the confidence to do it. Thank you Keely. 😘😘

Looks good Keely. I'm not very confident in knowing what to chop, but I did some of my phlox, and just half of the stems because they were already so tall. Some asters and such look too far along already. I would think that if flowers are starting to form it's too late. So I'll be doing my shade plants and only lightly. I love this concept, but we have warmed up very fast here in Oregon this year...again. xoxo

@pelly It's having the knowledge Jane to know which plants benefit from it Jane for me I would do most of mine if I knew which to do I'm not sure if you can do monardas too as got a couple of those in now,this phlox has grown so much it def needed doing 😊 I have made a note to split it next year and give mum some before it takes over my side path border 😁

@columbiariver thank you Laura I never know what can be done, done my asters as took cuttings from those but I could do with a list of what plants can benefit from it, my garden is filling up and I have loads to go in yet no idea where everything is going to go I buy so many and do too many seeds it ends up like a jungle and then I don't like it but do same each year I will never learn that my garden is small 😂😂

Well I’ve done my biggest Keely and I have every faith in you 😘😘

It's nice to have healthy plants to choose from. Those cuttings are like gold.

Really like phlox even though they're prone to mildew. Just need splitting every 2 or 3 years as the center dies off. Great choice @Keely 👌👌👍

@jpea this hopefully is mildew resistant or so it says 😂😂😂

I do use the fungicide when the roses first show any signs and before the phlox does, kept it clear till just now as the damp sets in, so no worries and it'll be Chelsea chopped in a few weeks 😀😀