Why Plant Kahori® Scarlet Garden Pinks?
This pint-sized plant makes a big impact! Kahori® Garden Pinks is a plucky Spirit that takes up little room, but creates bigtime drama. In spring, this cute edger covers itself in vibrant, hot pink blossoms. A rebloomer, it continues to produce perky pink flowers into the summer season. “Kahori” means “fragrant” in Japanese, and you’ll want these delightful candy-scented blooms near your outdoor entertaining area to add a sweet note to your spring and summer get-togethers. Kahori® is also a treat in window boxes; the blossoms paint a pretty picture outdoors, while the intoxicating fragrance drifts in through the open window, perfuming the inside of your home. Cover your garden in cherry-rose blossoms with Kahori® Scarlet Garden Pinks; the delicious scent will fill all your summer picnics with delight! Charming around borders, rock gardening, and in patio containers, you’ll even find butterflies coming to admire these star-shaped beauties! Evergreen foliage is the perfect backdrop as an abundant of scarlet flowers burst through all summer long.
How to use Kahori® Scarlet Garden Pinks in the landscape?
Whether used in a perennial garden or as a border plant in a foundation planting, Dianthus is a crowd pleaser with its long bloom time. Don't miss an opportunity to include this early summer bloomer around your patio.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-8
How To Plant Kahori® Scarlet Garden Pinks
Provide your Dianthus, or pinks as they are also known, with a sunny location and average well drained soil. Dianthus does not like shade or wet soils, Sandy soils are fine as are clay soils if they drain well.
How To Water
Water twice weekly for the first 3-5 weeks; then water weekly for the remainder of the year until winter. When you water, water slowly and thoroughly. Watering needs may be altered due to extreme weather conditions.
How To Fertilize
Incorporate Elements Starter Plant food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late year. Continue this for three years to get your plant well established.
How To Prune
Each fall, just before winter sets in clean up the previous years foliage and compost it. Be sure your perennials are mulched well for winter protection. Two inches of an organic mulch will do the job. Consider leaving the plant debris in place through the winter and doing your clean up on the weather warms in the spring. While it doesn't make things neat and tidy, the debris provides overwintering protection for insects, their eggs and pupae including our native Viceroy butterfly.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
