Some think that the flowers resemble grinning monkey faces. Perennial dianthus plants - known as "pinks" - also made Young's short list of plants that add pow to your summer garden. She cites the ...

(Jack Kelly Clark, UC Statewide IPM Project) — Cheddar and cottage pinks are perennial forms of Dianthus. Their foliage is blue-gray or green. Some varieties grow as low as 2 inches, others as ...

The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the edge than the flower’s base colour) margins ...