Emerald Pink Creeping Phlox

Phlox subulata 'Emerald Pink'

Other Names:  Pink Moss Phlox, Moss Pink, Pink Mountain Phlox, Pink Thrift

A highly adaptable and tough but very pretty plant anyone can grow, the Emerald Pink Creeping Phlox is one of those plants that will always have you looking forward to spring when its LOADS of brilliant pink flowers literally smother the dense carpet of emerald-green evergreen foliage. At maybe 5 to 6 inches high and spreading to 18 inches wide or so, Emerald Pink is absolutely stunning in groupings or mass plantings on sunny embankments or in landscape or garden borders, or as a low border along paths and walkways. It is also excellent for spilling over walls or cascading over the edge in pots, planters and other containers. Extremely cold hardy to -40F, and heat hardy as far south as central Florida, with high drought tolerance when established and deer and rabbit resistance, Emerald Pink is very easy to grow in USDA Zones 3-9.

Emerald Pink Creeping Phlox is exceptionally easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average to low fertility, even thriving in gravelly or sandy soils,  tolerating hot, dry exposures when established. As with so many other perennial plants, constantly soggy soils can be problematic. The best flowering is in a sunny site that receives 5 or more hours of sunlight per day...the more sun the more flowers. Though not necessary, after flowering, spent flower stems can be cut back or sheared to form a more dense carpet and possible rebloom. 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.