Barn Goddess tips: If you want to spread the love, plant some “pinks” in your garden. They grow well during winter months and provide a sweet, spicy scent. Brad E. Lee, president of the American ...

Pink is an easy colour to use in perennial borders and rock gardens and the genus Dianthus provides for plenty of pinks. Flowers may be single, semi-double or double; single forms have five petals.

The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the edge than the flower’s base colour) margins It’s the flower with the frilly ...

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