Dianthus 'Odessa Red'
Pot Carnation 'Odessa Red'
Carnation flowers can be single and open, or deeply ruffled doubles, and, usually, only one (unscented) flower per stem, although the dwarf varieties may have many smaller flowers blooming on the stems. Available in many different colours ranging from white, pink, yellow, red, orange, peach and purple, they can also be bi-coloured. 'Odessa Red' is a compact plant that bears deep crimson flowers over silvery green foliage
Contributed by @vickster
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Full sun to partial shade
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Very little water
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Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Free draining and fertile
Common name
Pot Carnation 'Odessa Red'
Latin name
Dianthus 'Odessa Red'
type
Perennial
family
Caryophyllaceae
ph
6.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Soil
Free draining and fertile
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.30 M
0.30 M
Dianthus 'Odessa Red'
Carnation flowers can be single and open, or deeply ruffled doubles, and, usually, only one (unscented) flower per stem, although the dwarf varieties may have many smaller flowers blooming on the stems. Available in many different colours ranging from white, pink, yellow, red, orange, peach and purple, they can also be bi-coloured. 'Odessa Red' is a compact plant that bears deep crimson flowers over silvery green foliage
Flowering
From Late Spring TO Early Autumn
Flowers can be single and open or deeply ruffled doubles and varieties flower at different times.There are many different colours ranging from white, pink, yellow, red, orangey, peach and purple, they can also be bi-coloured. If they are scented it is a lovely spicy clover like fragrance.
Planting Outdoors
From Mid Spring TO Late Spring
Plant out pot grown plants into flowering position make sure there is plenty of air circulating around them.
Propagation by seed
From Late Winter TO Early Spring
Sow seeds under glass ready for planting out when the last frost has gone.
Propagation by seed outside
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
Sow seeds 1/8th of an inch below the surface of the soil, keep moist till they are sprouting vigorously. They will probably not flower until the following year.
Propagation by cuttings
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
Take soft tip cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10 cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.
vickster