Garden phlox 'Morfar Albert'

Phlox paniculata 'Morfar Albert'

Description: Garden phlox with healthy green foliage and small, almost circular flowers. The flowers are pink with a darker pink eye and about 2 cm in diameter. Faint, good scent.

Height: 90 cm

Flowering time: In trials at the Swedish Agricultural University in Alnarp outside Malmö, the variety has flowered at the beginning of July and the flowering has lasted for about four weeks.

Flower colour: Pink with darker pink eye.

History: In an allotment garden with a white wooden gate, a circle of flowers in front of the entrance and large old apple trees, the autumn phlox 'Morfar Albert' grows. The garden is located in Bromma and has been owned by the same family for almost a hundred years. Monica, who owns the colony today, tells us that her grandmother and grandfather took over it in November 1919. At that time, most of the garden was used for household cultivation, but there was still room for a few perennials. The autumn phlox was planted by Monica's grandfather Albert sometime in the 1920s. When the autumn phlox is now launched in the trade, it is Albert who has given the name to the variety. "At home it was always called 'father's phlox'," says Monica. Both my mother and my uncle said so.”

Collected: Bromma, Stockholm.

Cultivation instructions: The garden phlox wants to stand in nutrient-rich and moist, but well-drained soil. It thrives in full sun or light shade. Flowering is prolonged if overbloomed inflorescences are cut off.

Sales: The cultivar is available for purchase in commercial gardens and garden centers from spring 2015.