With its dwarfed height indian carpet mix makes excellent border plantings this beautiful biennial or short lived perennial is a lovely example of the diversity of popular garden flowers dianthus.
Indian carpet plant.
Plant in full sun and moist well drained soil that is neutral to slightly alkaline.
3 9 characteristics attributes.
Indian carpet dianthus will grow to be about 15 inches tall at maturity with a spread of 12 inches.
The foliage is green and lance shaped.
Dianthus barbatus indian carpet mix sweet william single flowers in a wide range of colors over compact plant.
Sown in early spring it will produce flowers from early summer usually in around 10 weeks from sowing.
Dianthus barbatus indian carpet mixed can be treated either as a biennial or as a half hardy annual.
With an abundance of star shaped frilly flowers and a delicate scent dianthus are versatile easy to grow and as indian carpet is compact they are great in pots and containers as well as in beds and borders.
Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground not requiring facer plants in front.
Indian carpet series indian carpet series are compact bushy short lived evergreen perennials often grown as biennials with linear dark green leaves and from late spring into summer erect stems bearing dense flat clusters of fragrant flowers in shades of red pink and white.
The large heads of white pink and red blooms are particularly eye catching en masse.
This is only the second year i ve had them.
The other is that while the plants got huge this year the middles are all floppy bare and have yellow leaves.
While they are nice i did want the different colors all together.
I planted three of the indian carpet mix and got basically one variety of dianthus.
When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant individual plants should be spaced approximately 8 inches apart.
A dwarf compact variety of sweet william with a very wide colour range that makes excellent bedding.
Carpet plants for sale online in india from aquatic plants we have variety of plants like dwarf chain micro tennelus dwarf hair grass eriocaulon broad leaf.
Indian carpet is a compact seed grown strain of sweet william noted for its dense dwarf habit and showy dark eyed flowers.
That is one reason for a neutral rating.