Phlox x wheeleriana Sweet

Horticultural & Botanical History

‘Phlox is a Greek word, signifying flame, and intended, most probably, to indicate a glowing colour.  Wheeleriana, is a name given to this hybrid plant after the person who raised it, Mr. wheeler, nurseryman, of Warminster.

The delicate tint of the flowers of this plant, with its central shading, make it as desirable as any one of the present long list of Phloxes, so many of which have now established themselves in almost every flower garden.

We would recommend those of our readers who happen not to be fully acquainted with this genus to lose no opportunity of increasing their collections of them.  They are, every one of them, from those of three inches high, to those of six feet, highly ornamental and showy.’  [Maund vol.5, no.395/1834].

History at Camden Park

Listed only in the 1857 catalogue [T.752/1857].

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