There are about 80 species of tufted or cushion forming evergreen perennials or sub shrubs, in this genus. \u00a0They are found widely distributed from salt marshes, and storm swept headlands of seashores to alpine meadow in Europe, Turkey, North Africa, and the Pacific coast of North and South America. \u00a0They produce rosettes of linear to strap shaped leaves. \u00a0In early summer it bears compact spherical heads of small, saucer or cup shaped flowers on each of the slender stems. \u00a0Great for rock gardens or for front of a border.<\/p>\n
Grow these frost hardy plants in well-drained poor to moderately fertile dry soil in an open site in full sun. \u00a0Divide in early spring.<\/p>\n
Prone to rust, Southern Blight, spider mites<\/i><\/em>, and aphids.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Armeria alliacea \u2013 Armeria arenaria \u2013 Armeria plantaginea<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This robust clump forming perennial from the mountains of Western Europe grows 18\u201d tall and in breadth. \u00a0They produce tufts of long soft flat inversely lance-shaped to linear deep green 6\u201d leaves. \u00a0In summer it bears numerous bright reddish purple flower heads \u00be\u201d wide on wiry stems.<\/p>\n Zones 6-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Armeria \u2013 Sea Pink \u2013 Thrift There are about 80 species of tufted or cushion forming evergreen perennials or sub shrubs, in this genus. \u00a0They are found widely distributed from salt marshes, and storm swept headlands of seashores to alpine meadow in Europe, Turkey, North Africa, and the Pacific coast of North and South America. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[18,49,30,21,28,16,31,20,26],"product_tag":[75],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254484"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}