VMC Native Garden PerennialLight: Full Sun
Water: Average to Dry
Soil: Well-drained
Hardiness Zones: 3 – 9
Height: 4 – 6 in
Spacing: 24 in
Bloom Times: April – May
Bloom Color: Blue (‘Emerald Blue’ variety). Other varieties come in pink, purple and white.
Garden Use: Mat-forming ground cover for rock walls and gardens, path borders, exposed sites, hell-strips. Attracts pollinators.
Benefits: Easy to grow can be grown in medium to dry soils. Spreading, drought-tolerant, salt-tolerant ground-cover, attracts bees and butterflies. Tolerates poor soil conditions and pollution.
Phlox paniculata ‘Emerald Blue’
Creeping Phlox
All photos: © 2024 Elana Goren
Q U I C K T I P S
Phlox paniculata ‘Emerald Blue’ is a great, mat-forming groundcover for sunny sites. Best in the front of the garden bed, it creates a bright, colorful mat when flowering and a green, moss-like mat during the later months of the season.
This perennial likes well-drained soil and is great for rock gardens and site that require drought-tolerant plants. It’s also pretty when allowed to drape rock walls and hardscape surfaces that could use some softening lines.
No matter what variety of Phlox paniculata is chosen, this is a very easy plant to grow and will be at home at the front of any garden bed.