If you're after a low-growing, weed-suppressing plant with gorgeous flowers, Dianthus Devon Wizard is for you! This RHS AGM award winner's good qualities don't stop there - strongly clove scented flowers rise above attractive blue-green narrow leaves. The double blooms are large for a pink, up to 5.5cm across, the petals a vivid deep magenta with a darker zone at the base. One of the best in our range of pinks for sale.
Try to plant them in pots or borders next to seating areas or pathways to enjoy the wonderful scent.
Dianthus Devon Wizard is easy to grow and very hardy, so it's ideal for beginners, as once established, it is drought tolerant. It is semi-evergreen, so it can lose some or all of its leaves in a cold winter, but new growth will appear again in spring.
As it is so compact, reaching only 25cm tall, it is best used at the front of a border as edging or in a rock garden. It looks great in a pot or in troughs, trailing over the sides.
Pinks make wonderful cut flowers for small vases or as part of a larger arrangement. Devon Wizard's larger-than-average flowers and prolific flowering period means there will be plenty of blooms to use in vases.
The common name of 'pink' refers not to the colour of the flowers but to the frilled or serrated edges of the petals; pinking shears in dressmaking cut a zig-zag edge in material.
Bred by Whetman Pinks.