Carnations and Pinks are cottage
garden favorites and a fabulous range of plants. They are tough and
undemanding, often wonderfully fragrant and flower for months on end.
Carnations are taller plants with larger
flowers that have more petals, whereas pinks are lower growing with
smaller simpler flowers that go on flowering to an even greater degree.
In this way carnations and pinks are similar to pansies and violas
respectively.
Carnations grow to around 24inches high
and wide and will need supporting sticks placed as they grow, pinks are
about half the size. The group also contains Sweet Williams.
They can be readily propagated in summer
by taking cuttings from non-flowering shoots. Alternatively some can be
grown from seed, though the results are variable in color and quality of
plants produced.
