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, (sounds like “flocks”) originating mostly in North America, belongs to a genus of about 70 species that are known as the “backbone” of the perennial border, adding color and fragrance to the ...

Phlox are easy-to-grow plants that come in a huge variety of colors to provide a bounty of fragrant flowers throughout the summer months. They require only a little annual maintenance to perform at ...

Readers sent me on a wildflower hunt for one last look at colorful patches of phlox before the bloom fades in a few weeks. Connie Carol steered me north into Marion County where she found “almost a ...

Planting phlox is a beautiful way to add color to the garden in perennial fashion. The flowers, when healthy, are lovely to look at and can provide visual appeal for years to come. They do raise ...

Some garden plants are star performers, given top billing, but others seem to be consigned to the back row of the chorus. Such is the lot of the border phlox, usually tucked somewhere into the middle ...

April is an excellent month to add perennial flowers to your garden for beautiful blooms that will last for years. There is a wide selection of native North American perennials that can be planted ...

Unlike David from the Bible, who was known to have kept watch on his flocks by night, lately I’ve been keeping watch on my David phlox and others by day. Midsummer in Nebraska usually means more heat, ...

Prime Day Deals: Shop sales in tech, home, fashion, beauty & more curated by our editors. Phlox was some of the first North American native plants discovered and cultivated by European naturalists, ...

Know well the condition of your flocks… Proverbs 27:23. In 1753 Carolus Linnaeus published his stupendous “Species Plantarum”. In this epic work he intended to name all the plants known at that time, ...