I bought this late last year so this is the first time I'm seeing it bloom. It's phlox divaricata and likes the shade - and looks suspiciously like the phlox you have in your bird sanctuary.
Well, you know me.... if it didn't come with a tag, I'm not likely to research! I have been calling mine summer garden phlox. I don't think this is the same though. This looks like it comes up like a daylily and mine comes up more like a rosette when low to the ground and the leaves are not this swordlike but are more rounded. Mine also blooms down the stalk and this looks like it blooms just on top? Who knows though.... the differences I am seeing might just be because mine is more established and yours is new. My phlox will also grow in the shade but it definitely prefers sun. The patch at the drive gets much taller and gets more blooms than the patch in the bird sanctuary. Yours is definitely more full of blooms on top than mine ever gets, sun or shade. On mine, the flowers go down the stock so looking from above you see as much green as you do white.
Well, you know me.... if it didn't come with a tag, I'm not likely to research! I have been calling mine summer garden phlox. I don't think this is the same though. This looks like it comes up like a daylily and mine comes up more like a rosette when low to the ground and the leaves are not this swordlike but are more rounded. Mine also blooms down the stalk and this looks like it blooms just on top? Who knows though.... the differences I am seeing might just be because mine is more established and yours is new. My phlox will also grow in the shade but it definitely prefers sun. The patch at the drive gets much taller and gets more blooms than the patch in the bird sanctuary. Yours is definitely more full of blooms on top than mine ever gets, sun or shade. On mine, the flowers go down the stock so looking from above you see as much green as you do white.
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