Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new ...

Phlox paniculata, commonly known as garden phlox, is a native perennial that grows wild in woodlands and open fields and on cliffs. Its many cultivars are favorites for the home garden in a perennial ...

Garden phlox (Phlox paniculata) bloom in summer when so many spring things have given up to the heat. This phlox is a native American as well as the thrift that blooms in spring and the lovely little ...

Fill your gardens with color from spring through summer and even into fall with a variety of pollinator-friendly phlox. The beauty, diversity, and usefulness in the garden of this group of plants had ...

‘Tis the season of summer phlox and black-eyed Susans. The light to dark pink blossoms of the phlox intermingle with the bold yellow petals and dark centers of the black-eyed Susans. Their presence in ...

Fill your garden beds and borders with this fast-growing groundcover.

A veteran flower grower should undertake growing a perennial flower that offers a challenge. A good test plant is to grow a few tall garden phlox. Their large flowers offer strong color appeal. Most ...

So I had an invader sneak into my landscaping and it was a humbling moment. There among my wild geranium, big blue stem and queen of the prairie was a beautiful white and purple plant I thought was ...

Phlox was some of the first North American native plants discovered and cultivated by European naturalists, dating back to the 1700s. Like a lot of our native plants, garden phlox (P. paniculata) has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new growth, one native species of phlox shows up in delightful shades of light blue, ...