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 maritime <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Laucheana\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Sea Thrift \u2013 Sea Pink \u2013 Common Thrift<\/b><\/strong> \u2013 This variable clump forming perennial grows 4-8\u201d tall and spreads to 8-12\u201d wide. \u00a0This species have been grown since 1578 and has linear dark green leaves 1 \u00bd-5\u201d long. \u00a0\u00a0From spring to summer atop of stiff stems to 8\u201d long carry a profusion of deep rose-pink flowers to 1\u201d wide.<\/p>\n Zone 3-9<\/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":26511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[18,30,19,21,59,28,16,31,20,26],"product_tag":[],"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-160254500"},"_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\/5860"}],"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=5860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}