How To Grow And Care For Dianthus

Loving the Dianthus flower as much as I do, I hope to be able to best provide you with some useful information on How to grow and care for Dianthus flowers. Whether planting your first garden or planting your 100th garden the Dianthus flower is always a pretty choice to add to any garden flower assortment. The other more popular name for the Dianthus Flower is something you have no doubt heard of and seen before in your life, it is of course Carnations. These are my personal favorite flowers. I think they last a lot longer then other flowers do. And they have a very pretty and light scent to them.

What is the best time to plant Dianthus

There are so many different kinds of Dianthus flowers. Some you can grow annuals, biennials and perennials. Sot hey can grow in different kinds of weather, this is up to you and what kind of carnations that you want to plant. I will tell you the basics on how to care for them and what you should do to maintain a happy and healthy carnation flower bed.

How to Care for Dianthus

Caring for Dianthus is a much lighter duty task than some other flower varieties. Most carnations can grow to be at least 20 inches high. They prefer to be exposed to full sun light. The soil for these flowers should be drained and kept dampened without saturation. If you plant them in too wet of soil or soil that has too much fertilizer, you won't have much luck with proper growth. You will have very green leaves but not as many , if any at all that will flower correctly. And if you have soil that does not drain well at all and it should stay wet you will have yellow leaves and plants that may not survive the water bath. They only need a little water like a light misting 2 maybe 3 times a week. These plants grow best in soil that is 50 to 60 degrees. You may want to deadhead these flowers as they grow too, as this promotes proper Dianthus growth. Deadheading a flower means when they are ready or have died to pinch them off right the the start of the stem and under the flower. Or you can use sheers, if you do use them then you will cut right above or below the leaf node. Performing some if not all of the preceding tasks will help promote Dianthus growth and are some explanations on how to grow Dianthus flowers

What Can Be Planted With Carnations

Properly caring for Dianthus flowers can sometime mean deciding which flowers to plant along side them. These types of flowers are not picky as to what you grow with them as long as you do not plant them to close together to where they can not grow properly. As I have said above there are so many different carnations out there that you can have them as annuals, perennials or even biennials.So as long as you have the right temp soil and weather you will have a beautiful garden full of different plants and flowers for the season.

What can not be planted with carnations

As I said Dianthus flowers are not very much on the picky side, they can grow with just about any plant that fits the same directions as these do.