Pin wheel like flowers, Pure white on top/Maroon underneath
Growing Areas
Punjab, KPK
Frost Tender
No
Exposure
Full sun/Partial shade
Soil pH
6.0-7.0
Propagation
Seeds
Uses
Accent garden feature, Intriguing pot plant
Other Details
This spectacular plant is native to South Africa. The plant is famous for its vanilla chocolaty like night fragrance. One sniff and you will fall in love with this amazing annual. The flowers are petite just a centimeter across with two toned flower..white on top and maroon underneath. An amazing plant.. seeds are very small, they can be scattered in the garden to grow along other annuals. Best grown in large clumps to get the most out of the vanilla fragrance.Seed source: Thompson & Morgan seeds UK.
Tahir shb, for rare but exotic plants like these which do well in Pakistani gardens- we may add the place where an interested reader can purchase them. I am assuming it is not commonly known but it is a must have for a perfume garden. What do you think?
M Farooq wrote:Tahir shb, for rare but exotic plants like these which do well in Pakistani gardens- we may add the place where an interested reader can purchase them. I am assuming it is not commonly known but it is a must have for a perfume garden. What do you think?
Yes Sir, the seeds were from Thompson and Morgan seeds UK, it is a rare plant in Pakistan... we can add the field of 'Available from' for a readers convenience in the table.
M Farooq wrote:Tahir shb, for rare but exotic plants like these which do well in Pakistani gardens- we may add the place where an interested reader can purchase them. I am assuming it is not commonly known but it is a must have for a perfume garden. What do you think?
Yes Sir, the seeds were from Thompson and Morgan seeds UK, it is a rare plant in Pakistan... we can add the field of 'Available from' for a readers convenience in the table.
Good idea, but I guess it will be a burden on the volunteer to find a location if it is created for every entry, but these rare and very interesting plants must have a location, may be in the description as a note. I like to collect to fragrant plants but wasn't even aware of it. So that is the advantage of the database :-)
munir wrote:Indeed an intriguing flower.Tahir, I need seeds.Wonder why it is called as a " Night Phlox",when it hardly has any resemblance with the common Phlox?
Sir the flowers resemble common garden phlox.. that's why it is called Night phlox.
Superficially the shape of the flowers is strikingly phlox-like, hence the designation 'Night Phlox', for their evening fragrance.(wikipedia)
