Ruby Riot Creeping Phlox - 72-Cell Plug Tray

Name: Ruby Riot Creeping Phlox - 72-Cell Plug Tray
Brand: Great Lakes Lavender Farm
SKU: GLLF-PER-3B98B453-72
Price: 687.15 USD
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72-Cell Plug Tray

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About the Product

Ruby Riot is a creeping phlox with reddish-pink flowers and darker eyes, the deepest color in its group. The large flowers bloom early and cover the plant well.

It keeps a neat, mounded habit for its first couple of years, stays attractive later into spring than older creeping phlox and spreads more as it matures. Use it for edging, slopes and rock gardens. Butterflies and bees visit.

What it looks like

Flat, five-petaled flowers about 1 inch across in reddish ruby pink, each with a darker eye, cover the plant densely. The leaves are small, narrow, needle-like and green. The plant forms a mounding groundcover about 4 to 8 inches tall and 24 to 28 inches wide. At peak bloom it is a full cushion of deep ruby pink.

Growing it with lavender

Creeping phlox likes the same sun and well-drained soil as lavender, and its ruby-pink carpet makes a neat spring edging along lavender beds, blooming weeks before the lavender does.

Care

Plant in full sun in average, well-drained soil and water during long dry spells. Hardy in zones 3-8. Plants hold a mounded shape for the first couple of years and spread wider with age; shear lightly after bloom to keep them dense.

At a glance

Botanical name: Phlox subulata
Flower color: Reddish pink with darker eyes
Foliage: Green
Growth habit: Mounding groundcover
Mature size: 4–8 in tall × 24–28 in wide
USDA hardiness zones: 3–8
Light: full sun
Bloom start: Mid-April
Peak bloom: Late-April
Bloom pattern: Single Flush
Deer resistance: Moderately resistant
Pollinator value: Good

Sizes and shipping

One full 72-cell plug tray: 72 young starter plugs of this variety (cells about 1⅓ in. wide × 2½ in. deep), rooted and ready to pot up into quarts or gallons. Best for growers and nurseries. Potted plants and plug trays ship during our live-plant seasons, March 1–May 31 and October 1–November 30; June through September is local pickup only. Plugs, potted plants and trays do not ship to AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, UT or WA.

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Mature height: 8.0 in
Mature spread: 28.0 in
Bloom: Mid-April – peak Late-April
Fragrance: Mild
Deer: Moderately resistant

Lavender companion · grow guide

How to grow Ruby Riot

Phlox · Phlox subulata

Two very different plants: garden phlox (P. paniculata) is a tall summer bloomer that wants sun, rich moist soil and good air flow; creeping phlox (P. subulata) is a spring groundcover for sun and lean, well-drained soil.

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Full sunLight
Moderate waterAverage drainage
pH 5.5–7.5Soil
Zones 3a–8bHardiness
8″ tall28″ wide
SusceptibleDeer · rabbits susceptible
Not known toxicPets

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Hardy in zones 3a–8b

Spring or early fall.

When it arrives

Your plug tray

Pot 72-cell plugs into 4-inch pots or plant out after hardening off. Creeping phlox plugs can go straight into the ground 12 inches apart to knit into a mat. Keep moist until rooted.

When to plant

Spring or early fall.

How deep

Plant at the same depth as in the plug or with the bare-root crown just at soil level.

Spacing

Garden phlox 18–24 inches for air flow; creeping phlox 12–18 inches for a mat.

Soil

Garden phlox: rich, moist loam. Creeping phlox: sandy or gravelly, well-drained soil. · pH 5.5–7.5

Fix-it tip: Add compost for garden phlox. For creeping phlox, add grit to heavy clay or plant on slopes and walls so it never stays wet.

Sun

Full sun (tolerates light part shade).

Garden phlox in shade gets more mildew and fewer flowers; creeping phlox blooms best in full sun.

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Is it alive? What spring looks like

Creeping phlox stays evergreen and flowers in early to mid-spring. Garden phlox emerges from the crown in mid-spring as reddish shoots and blooms in mid to late summer.