Phlox divaricata 'Blue Moon'

Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, 'Blue Moon' Woodland Phlox is an impressive and long-lived North American native perennial that will light up and offer sensory appeal to your shade garden in spring. Clouds of wonderfully fragrant violet-blue flowers, which are larger and fuller than the species, float about 18 inches above low mounds of attractive lance-shaped green leaves. Depending on your location, the flowers appear over a long period in mid to late spring and are great for providing early season pollen for butterflies and hummingbirds. The spreading plants will slowly naturalize to form large colonies in woodland settings, rock gardens and garden beds and borders.

Growing 12 to 18 inches tall and spreading to form a 24 to 36 inch wide patch, Blue Moon Woodland Phlox is ideal for use as a groundcover in partially shaded to shady areas of the garden. It works especially nice as a border along a path or walkway or as an underplanting for trees such as Japanese maples. A fine addition to woodland gardens, rock gardens, cottage gardens, fragrance gardens, hummingbird and butterfly gardens, blue theme gardens, shady wildflower or native plant gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Blue Moon Woodland Phlox is very easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and shade to part shade. Avoid direct afternoon sun. Morning and evening sun are okay. It is highly drought tolerant when established. Plant with the top of the root ball even with ground level. Care and maintenance are minimal. Feed in spring with an organic plant food.