One to put in your button hole (Carnations Dianthus)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Carnations Dianthus
Date:	03/09/08 (171 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: smell nice

Disadvantages: none

Carnations and pinks.

My pinks in the garden are nearly finished a few flowers hanging on. Pinks and carnations flower in the garden June, July and August.
These flowers are a sweet smelling addition to the flower border.

There are many variants of the pink and carnation family dianthus. You may be most familiar with these flowers for button holes and bouquets. The ones for button holes the perennial Perpetual Carnation have probably been grown in a greenhouse.
Carnations are flowers that are often given as a symbol of love the darker flowers representing a truer deeper emotion.

The first carnations in England were introduced from Normandy in 1100. The older varieties are highly scented as they have been bred for different colours and larger flowers the scent has been bred out of a lot of them and some of the modern species do not smell so strongly.

The flowers have a wide range of different shades of pink and scarlet and whites, sometimes white carnations are dyed different colours for a special colour scheme at an event. Carnations can be one coloured or a flower with a different shade around the edge or the centre of the flower.

The carnations I grow in my flower border are a hardy perennial carnation. They grow fairly well on most soils they like a fairly well drained soil mine is chalk , but saying that my dad grew them successfully on clay.
These flowers can be grown from seed but do well grown from cuttings; I shall attempt to take cuttings from my plants.

These flowers look pretty and smell wonderful edging or at the back of a border on a hot sunny summers evening.

Carnations are the national flower of Spain it is the birth flower for those in January.
Thank you for reading my review about this country cottage garden plant .

Summary: A pretty nice smelling flower