Dianthus 'Pink Celebration' (p)

Description: Dianthus 'Pink Celebration' is a charming cottage pink variety that embodies the traditional appeal of heritage garden plants. This hardy perennial produces abundant soft pink, fringed flowers with a distinctive sweet, clove-like fragrance throughout the summer months, typically from June to August. The plant forms a compact, mound-shaped habit with attractive silvery-green foliage that remains evergreen to semi-evergreen throughout the year, providing year-round garden structure. It is exceptionally low-maintenance once established and demonstrates good drought tolerance, making it ideal for South England's varied soil conditions, particularly chalk-based and free-draining soils. The flowers are excellent for cutting and bring fragrance indoors. Pink Celebration thrives in full sun positions and requires minimal intervention beyond deadheading spent blooms to encourage continuous flowering. Its reliable performance, combined with its pollinator-attracting qualities and cottage garden charm, makes it a versatile choice for borders, rockeries, path edging, and container planting.

Other benefits: evergreen, borders, cottage-garden, edging, containers, cut-flowers

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 0.4m x 0.4m

Position: full sun

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -10°C