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Garden Phlox

With masses of small, star-shaped, colorful flowers blanketing the plants, the garden phlox are a sight to behold. Each year, the number of perennial phlox increases with new and more intriguing varieties: subtle pink, patient purple, encouraging red, pure white, rich violet, and even pale gray. With such a plethora of color and fullness, the richness can be joyfully exclamatory, pleasingly satisfying, or peacefully relaxing.

This easy-to-grow perennial seems bound and determined to produce and then produce again. Each plant, with its many flower stalks, may be cut back when they are short in the spring for more branching and heavier flowering. Cut them back again after they have blossomed for even more color. Some years, phlox have been known to bloom from mid-June through September or October.

The many flower stalks of each plant and the long season of blossoms illustrate how repetition is essential to be an effective encourager ...
This teaching continues in the book, entitled "Encouragement."

Excerpt from A Garden of Love, copyright © 2009 by Thomas B. Clarke, 82 colorful pages, $19.95. By interweaving a depiction of flowers and the Scriptures, this book attempts to illustrate how flowers such as the garden phlox can inspire a Scriptural application of love. Thirty flowering plants are presented – each photograph was taken in the Gethsemane Prayer Garden.