Our gardening expert on pinks – the carnation’s heavenly scented cousin
I recently attempted to explain to my friend Lucy just how lovely dianthus can be, but her response was to remove them from her online shopping basket and go back to looking at alliums. I pleaded: “They smell heavenly. You will be picking them all summer long, little posies of ruffled blossoms all over your kitchen.” But that failed to move her.
I should have qualified the difference between a carnation – the unscented, unloved flower of forecourts, top heavy and not great for the garden (and a species of dianthus) – and a pink, which is a darling, compact, scented variety that is easy to grow. (The name comes not from the colour, but the frilly edges, as in pinking shears.)
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