A magnificent captain for your garden! It’s smooth sailing with these blooms, whether in your garden or on your patio in containers. AAS Judges were very impressed with this new dianthus as it continued blooming and growing even through summer’s heat. One quick shearing after blooming and it bounced back with a profusion of beautiful pink blooms that sport a consistent, light pink edging. New interspecific breeding gives this beauty more heat tolerance than traditional dianthus varieties which also have stems long enough to be used as cut flowers. Bonus, the more flower stems you cut for indoor enjoyment, the more blooms this Capitan puts forth. Upgrade your garden with the award-winning Capitán™ Magnifica dianthus!
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Available in plant form only.Plant in well-drained soil. Maintain regular watering and fertilizing to maximize flowers and growth. Remove dead flowers to promote more blooms.
- “Entry kept its color and grew well during the heat. After deadheading it came back full of buds and lasting color. The plant was hardy all season.”
- “The trial performed beautifully. While it grew to pretty much the same size as the comparison, it continued to bloom profusely throughout the heat of the summer and stayed relatively small. The blooms also contained a deeper pink than the comparison which made a nice contrast to the comparison. It was incredibly easy to grow. One application of slow-release fertilizer was given in June and even during 110°F heat, it only needed to be watered every other day. Truly a wonderful addition for a patio gardener with limited space and time/knowledge.”
- “Even in the horrible heat, the plants kept blooming their heads off and only started to give out a little at the beginning of September when it was very hot and dry!”
- “Good heat tolerance for a dianthus. The entry was a much better plant overall than the comp. While I never noticed a strong fragrance, it definitely had many more flowers than the comparison and the flowers were more showy, too. Overall the plant was more compact, bushy, and uniform.”
- “The entry was more robust with taller stems and larger blooms. The pink and white pattern was consistent and the plants were noticeably more full from quite a distance away. On close inspection the blooms were bright and the foliage clean. Although we didn’t cut the flowers they had long enough stems to do so.”
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