Phlox subulata Candy Stripe Plant Delights Creations and Discoveries As soon as one stalk

As soon as one stalk finishes flowering

lavender-blue flowers

Veronica umbrosa 'Georgia Blue' features very small

During winters that remain above 10 degrees F

the stems are smothered with a mass of mauvy violet flowers

Phlox subulata Candy Stripe Plant Delights Creations and Discoveries As soon as one stalkPhlox subulata 'Candy Stripe', reportedly from the late Woodbank Nursery in Tasmania, is one of the best, most memorable selections of our US native phlox that I've ever seen. The soft, evergreen, needle like foliage of this durable, drought tolerant rock garden (high class) or ditchbank (lower class) groundcover is topped with round flowers, each carefully striped pink and white like a candy cane a real hummingbird treat. Although flowering is