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Don’t Let Spring Creep Up On You! (Phlox subulata)

Don’t Let Spring Creep Up On You! (Phlox subulata)

Posted by John Friel on Oct 22nd 2021

Known variously as creeping phlox or moss phlox, early-flowering Phlox subulata is a welcome harbinger of spring. Its cheerful blooms blanket slopes and spill over walls.It might be hard to think spring, or plan for it, when autumn chores beckon. But this really is the time to do so.Planted in fall, P. subulata has lots of time to form a vigorous root mass. Soon, cold nights and short days will shut down vegetative growth. That tough evergreen foliage will hunker down and wait patiently. Sleep t

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