Dianthus 'Memories' 9cm

🌸 Dianthus ‘Memories’ 9cm – Fragrant Pure White Perennial

Bring elegance, fragrance, and long-lasting blooms to your garden with Dianthus ‘Memories’, a compact, evergreen perennial celebrated for its pure white, highly fragrant flowers. This tidy, low-growing plant forms neat cushions of blue-grey foliage and is perfect for the front of borders, rockeries, gravel gardens, pathways, or patio containers.

Highly attractive to bees and pollinators, Dianthus ‘Memories’ is also ideal for cut flowers due to its clove-like scent and enduring blooms.

🌿 Key Features

• Botanical Name: Dianthus ‘Memories’

• Flower Colour: Pure white, double blooms

• Fragrance: Strong clove-like scent

• Foliage: Slender blue-grey, evergreen

• Habit: Compact, cushion-forming perennial

• Height: 20–30cm

• Flowering Season: Late spring to summer, often repeat blooms with deadheading

• Wildlife Friendly: Attracts bees and pollinators

🌱 Ideal Uses

• Front of borders or edging pathways

• Rockeries, gravel gardens, and raised beds

• Patio containers or small garden pockets

• Ideal for cut flowers and scented displays

🌿 Growing Conditions

• Position: Full sun for best flowering and compact growth

• Soil: Well-drained; prefers light, sandy, or gritty soils

• Maintenance: Low; avoid winter waterlogging

• Spacing: 25–30cm apart

🌼 Care Tips

• Water regularly in the first season, then moderately once established

• Feed lightly in early spring and after the first flush of flowers

• Deadhead spent blooms to encourage repeat flowering

• Trim lightly after flowering to maintain compact cushions

• Divide clumps every few years to refresh growth

• Apply light gravel mulch to improve drainage and reduce moisture

⭐ Why Choose Keans Claremorris?

• ✔️ Trusted Irish garden centre with expert horticultural advice

• ✔️ Premium, healthy perennials grown for Irish conditions

• ✔️ Fast, reliable nationwide delivery

• ✔️ Helping you create fragrant, colourful, and low-maintenance gardens

With Dianthus ‘Memories’, enjoy year-round foliage, sweet-scented blooms, and a tidy, evergreen garden feature that brightens borders, patios, and rockeries! 🌿🌼