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 juniperifolia \u2013 Armeria caespitosa<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This dwarf cushion forming sub shrub from mountain pastures or rock crevices in Central Spain grows 2-3\u201d high and spreads to about 6\u201d wide. \u00a0It produces rosettes of linear hairy spine tipped gray green leaves to \u00bd\u201d long. \u00a0In late spring it bears purplish pink to pale pink flower to \u00bd\u201d wide are borne on short stems to \u00bd-3\/4\u201d long.<\/p>\n Zones 5-8<\/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":0,"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-160254486"},"_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\/5848"}],"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=5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}