Phlox ‘Home Fires’

Common Name:
Home Fires Creeping Phlox

Description:
Phlox ‘Home Fires’ is a low-growing, mat-forming perennial known for its vibrant spring display and ability to spread beautifully across garden beds, banks, and rockeries. This cultivar produces a dense carpet of bright, rose-pink flowers that smother the foliage in early to mid-spring, creating a vivid blanket of colour just as gardens begin to wake from their winter dormancy. Its needle-like green leaves remain attractive through the rest of the year, forming a tidy ground cover. Ideal for Melbourne’s temperate climate, ‘Home Fires’ thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it well-suited to sloped gardens, retaining walls, and the front of sunny borders. Once established, it is drought tolerant, low maintenance, and works beautifully in cottage, native, or waterwise garden designs.

Form:
*Ground Cover
*Shrub - Clumping / Grass-like / Mounding

Mature Size:
*Height: 10–15 cm
*Width: up to 60 cm

Aspect:
*Full Sun
*Part Shade

Flowering:
*Flowers in Spring

Flower Colour:
*Rose Pink

Key Attributes:
*Suitable for Pots
*Drought Tolerant
*Bee Attracting
*Perennial
*Low Maintenance
*Evergreen (in mild climates)
*Excellent for Erosion Control

Toxicity:
Non-toxic to humans and pets

Companion Plants:
*Sedum ‘Dragon’s Blood’
*Erigeron karvinskianus
*Thymus serpyllum
*Lavandula angustifolia
*Armeria maritima

Plant Growers Australia (PGA) is an innovative wholesale production nursery based in Melbourne, renowned for superior quality garden plants and pioneering breeding programs.
PGA do not sell direct to the public, but their website has detailed information on this species that is available for everyone to access. 
Visit www.pga.com.au for further details and photos of this plant.