PHLOX X `VIOLET PINWHEELS`Category: Perennial Breeder: Plants That Work Hardiness Zone: 4 9 Height: 4 5 in Spread: 24 36 in Bloom Color: Purple Shades Foliage Color: Green Shades This brilliant new creeping Phlox is a hybrid that behaves like a Phlox subulata, but with a much more intense flower color that you'd expect. Violet purple flowers are aglow from mid to late spring, and the notched, upturned petals look like tiny pinwheels, especially with movement from the wind.

pointed leaves are extremely fragrant and look and feel velvet-like

» Dark green foliage

» Attracts hummingbirds

» Stabilize banks

‘Darkside of the Moon’ features an attractive mounding form of luscious

Typically grown as a small tree it can also grow as a large shrub in the wild

Blooms early to mid May

» Long slender pink petals resembles octopus legs

sandy locations that allow it become an unbroken swath of beauty with deep green foliage in the summer followed by a red foliage display in fall that will make you think the ground is ablaze

Dense habit

cool gray-green foiliage

»  Fills in and grows to maturity quite quickly