Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new growth, one native species of phlox shows up in delightful shades of light blue, purple and, occasionally, white. Woodland phlox or wild blue phlox ...

If you're keen to add some stunning floral color to your garden, you can't go past these outstanding phlox varieties ...

When you think of phlox, you might picture the 5-foot-tall garden phlox (Phlox paniculata) that graces many a cottage garden. But the genus phlox contains a wide variety of species — some that need ...

) is a good, tough plant, and is much used. Woodland phlox, on the other hand, has a quieter beauty that some gardeners prefer. Consider Phlox stolonifera 'Variegata.' Don't confuse it with the garish ...

Fall and winter can be a wonderfully relaxing time for gardeners, but it can also be a time to get those last-minute plantings in. In many USDA Hardiness Zones, November is the ideal time to plant ...

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My favorite woodland flower just may be the wild blue phlox. Each spring its delicate pale purple flowers composed of five fragile petals welcome me on just about every hike I take into our Loess ...

* What it is: ‘Blue Moon’ is a heavy and long-blooming variety of our Pennsylvania native woodland phlox. Its blue-violet flowers are bigger than the species, offer early-spring food to pollinators, ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new ...