The Creeping Phlox Is Creeping
By fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29819)
Momence, Illinois
April 25, 2016 8:09am CST
I love Phlox. It's such a pretty delicate flower. But looks can be deceiving. One year my sister in law was visiting from Oregon. She had brought us a small container of creeping Phlox in a deep pink color. They were alive when she gave them to us. My husband and I both forgot about them and a few weeks later we remembered them but they looked dead. He decided to plant them anyway just to see if they could recover. And they did. We now have a fairly big patch of them. I was impressed. So the hunt was on for more.
We found some a couple of years later and planted them. They are now doing very well and the patch of them get bigger every year. We bought a pretty purple color. So if you are looking for a flower that just keeps on giving this is the one for you. They come back every year and they spread pretty good
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 16
I am a big fan of these creeping phlox, and I hope to find more this year.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
26 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 That's awesome. My husband likes to plant them, then kill them. Lol!
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
27 Apr 16
@DianneN lol omg that's so funny, that's lots of work just to go and kill em.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
Most guys are like that Dianne lol. My hubby got his love of flowers from his dad. His dad spent hours in the flower beds when he was alive.
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@Juliaacv (56322)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 We are always amazed that they come back every year. Because just before they green up we'll go and inspect them, and there is always patches of them missing, and we find a lot of rabbit droppings in that area. The bunnies will eat them in the late winter months. But those flowers are so hardy and strong. I need to thin mine out again.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
I have hundreds in just one patch, I just love them and hope to find more.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
@Juliaacv For as delicate as the flower is the plant is amazingly strong. No matter how bad they look they always come back.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 16
Anything that blooms is a good thing. I especially love the ones that come back year after year.
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@gudheart (12659)
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25 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 I think that might be what happened with the white flowers blooming at the moment.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
@gudheart That's great we do so love the flowers.
@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 16
We now have pink and purple I would love to find some white ones. I may get lucky. And yes very pretty.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Apr 16
That's a lovely vision. You can control the patch if the Phlox gets out of hand.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 16
My husband does trim it down from time to time when they want to overcrowd other flowers. Thanks glad you like my flowers.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
26 Apr 16
I live in a small apartment. If I have to grow anything, it has to be on common terrace. There are birds that would do anything to prevent plants surviving. I tried. lol. It is a bit of s struggle. But some day I will have a home of my own, yard of my own and I will have plants too, plenty of them. :)
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
26 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 ...Thank you so much for your wishes. :) Would love to be tending to my garden...great and healthy pastime. :)
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
I hope you get that someday. It's so wonderful to look at my flowers every morning with my first cup of coffee. Much good luck to you on getting that.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
19 Jul 16
Lovely! Your photographs are just mesmerizing. 
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Jul 16
Thank you so much glad you like them.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
6 May 16
@fishtiger58 My Mom had the same color than the picture here.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
What color did she have. They are so pretty especially right at dusk, then they seem to glow.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
6 May 16
@marlina For some reason at dusk this color seems to glow, I love that effect.
@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
26 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 White they should be beautiful too, I have to shop around for some.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
They are so beautiful and spread pretty good. We have two big patches of them, I would love to find some white ones.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
@LadyDuck Me too, we have a huge garden center in our area. It's so large they give you a map of the place when you walk in. They have 20 small greenhouses, and like 4 big huge ones. Then they have an outdoor area as well. They also have a hot dog stand there, we always have lunch there on our shopping day as we are usually there for 4 or 5 hours it's just that big. They also always have a few new flowers we have never seen before and that's always fun.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
25 Apr 16
I planted a lot of them years ago along our sloped driveway - I hope the people who own that house now didn't kill them all.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 I know lots of people who can kill 'hard to kill' plants - I'm not one of them of course.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill well truth be told I probably could too, but my husband is the guy who tends the flowers. I oooh and aaaahhh and take photos.
@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
They are pretty hardy short of pulling them up by their roots, they are pretty hard to kill.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
25 Apr 16
they're beautiful :) i'm glad they'll grow well fer ya'n yer neck'f the woods. i fear they aint so fond'f our air clime 'n caliche soil. alas, i can only grow'm'n pots.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
27 Apr 16
@fishtiger58 with our arid clime i fear their scent's lost, but i do enjoy their beauty :)
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
27 Apr 16
@crazyhorseladycx that's to bad, nothing better than opening the windows and smelling my flowers.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
At least you can grow them in pots. Better than no flowers at all. We all need the beautiful color and scent in our lives.
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
25 Apr 16
Some places that I have lived people love to put these creeping phlox either to cover slopes or to border near the street. I have some plants in my yard that I am calling phlox, but they are not the creeping variety. They also are not as tall as what I thought phlox grow.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
I have a taller version of Phlox too they grow tall and don't spread like the creeping variety does. I like them but not as much as the creeping variety.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
25 Apr 16
I wonder if they have medicinal properties.
Many plants, including weeds, are known for certain properties, such as curing cancers or whatever.
I think scientists will do more research and see if we can get pills from such plants to get rid of headache, cancer and whatever else.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
Of that I"m unsure. Would be cool if they offered that
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Apr 16
They are the perfect ground cover. We have them in our flower beds so occasionally we have to clip them back a bit or they would take over the whole bed.
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