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If you yearn¹ for a carpet of color on a bank or sloping area of your garden, plant some phlox subulate . These are the most popular spring flowers for spilling color over low stonewalls or beside garden steps. The perennial² plants spread rapidly and are about six inches high with needle shaped moss-like foliage³. In late spring the plants are completely covered with star-shaped flowers. Plant them in full sun in well-drained soil.

The lavender, pink or white flowers last quite a long time when the spring weather is cool. They can be sheared⁴ off after bloom to increase the plants vigor⁵ and tidiness. They are perfect for rock gardens and the colors combine beautifully as the individual plants grow together to form a mat.

In my garden, the lavender spreads more rapidly than the pink or white. A mature carpet of these plants is one of the most cheerful of all floral displays in a spring garden. Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson was thinking of such a display when he said, “The Earth laughs in flowers.”

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