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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commonly called "pinks," colorful dianthus range from tiny to towering. Some even contribute a spicy aroma to your garden with ...

Pink is an easy colour to use in perennial borders and rock gardens and the genus Dianthus provides for plenty of pinks. Flowers may be single, semi-double or double; single forms have five petals.

How to grow Dianthus, and what the best varieties are Coronavirus curtailed this summer’s plant hunt, but Matt Collins made a rapid pre-quarantine dash in search of the French carnation 34 Gift this ...

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Although flowering peaks in spring, newer varieties will also repeat flower if you keep them dead-headed and fertilised. The cut flowers have a long vase life and let you enjoy the fragrance indoors.

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References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus. He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower).

This past weekend I was in church and one of my pastor friends asked me an interesting question about mini roses. One of the characteristics of carnations is some of them look a lot like roses. He ...