Soft, Fragrant Blooms

Our Dianthus perennial flowers feature soft, fragrant blooms that fill the air with a sweet, irresistible scent. The delicate, fringed petals release a floral aroma that attracts bees and butterflies, bringing life to your garden. These blooms captivate the senses and create a serene outdoor space.

Compact Growth Habit

Standing at just 6 inches tall, our Dianthus brings a compact charm to any garden. Its mat-forming spread efficiently covers areas without crowding other plants. As one of the suitable compact flowers to plant outside, it suits smaller gardens, borders, and containers while requiring minimal upkeep.

Continuous Blooms

Our Dianthus outdoor plants live up to their reputation by producing flowers over an extended period. With their ability to bloom consistently, they ensure long-lasting visual appeal, minimizing the need for frequent replanting and providing lasting beauty throughout the season.

Versatile in Garden Design

Its compact growth makes our Dianthus a useful addition to ground cover seeds for borders, ground cover, or containers, adding flexibility to any garden design. Whether grouped for a bold look or scattered for a more understated effect, our Dianthus adjusts easily to your garden’s needs.

Dianthus (Dianthus Plumarius Sweetness) - Dianthus Plumarius flowers for months on compact, mat-forming, evergreen, plants. This perennial easily grows from Dianthus Plumarius seed, so make room in your garden for this beautiful flower! From its wide range of colors, everything from nearly white to deep carmine, with all hues of pink in between, to its super-abundant bloom season, it lives up to its name in garden glory.

The fringed, dark-eyed blooms of this Dianthus ground cover are about 1 inch wide, set atop foliage that reaches just 6 inches high. Radiantly bright, these flowers would be eye-catching even if they didn't lure you in by the nose first, their sweet floral scent absolutely irresistible. Bees and butterflies find them irresistible. It makes a good cut flower as well.

Dianthus Sweetness spreads about a foot wide in the sunny garden making it a popular fast growing ground cover plant. Its grass-like gray-green foliage forms a dense, weed-choking mat that serves as an effective ground cover in large plantings. It needs full sunshine and good soil drainage, but other than that is quite unfussy about conditions. It makes a good erosion-prevention plant on slopes and banks, and is a lovely edging, front-of-the-border standout, and a good container choice as well.

Sow Dianthus flower seeds indoors 4 - 6 weeks before last frost. Use sterile starter mix, and sow the Dianthus seed on top, covering lightly with soil. Transplant seedlings outdoors after frost season has passed. For directly sowing ground cover seeds outdoors, wait until danger of frost is over, and directly sow into prepared beds. Lightly cover 1/16 inch and keep seeds moist.