Pinks and carnations

Pinks and carnations belong to the genus Dianthus. They are mostly perennial plants, some of them are annual or biennial and some are low sub-shrubs with woody basal stems. They are grown for their attractive, long-lasting and usually flagrant flowers that appear in spring and summer. They can be used in mixed borders, entry way beds, cut flower gardens, scented gardens, butterfly gardens and cottage gardens, rock gardens or grown in pots. Pinks flowers may be in one color, with a central zone or eye of a second color or marked with different color just inside the edge of every petal and usually with a central eye of the same color.

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