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Carnations and Pinks for Garden and Greenhouse: Their True History and Complete Cultivation By John Galbally / 0-88192-382-6, hardcover, US$34.95© 1997, Currently Available (Pricing and availability subject to change)
Dianthus amurensis Lot R 
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Code: DA34
Price: $2.00
'Amur Pink' or 'Amur River Pink'
This seed has been collected from native populations in Russia. Good sized (about 1 inch wide) flowers that are frilled with slightly darker eyes. Plants grow one foot tall or so and may take on a lightly sprawling habit with many flowers produced from the ends of the stems. A valuable rock garden species for it's late summer flowering, which starts in late July and goes till mid September. Easily grown from seed. A good choice for poor soils that are well-drained. Plants often start blooming 6 to 8 weeks after sowing.
Zones 3-8. Native from Siberia near the Amur River. Germination in less than two weeks at 65-75ºF.
50 seeds.
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