Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Follow this up with another early summer application of Espoma Flower-Tone, this will provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as Espoma Plant-tone at the recommended rate, this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows.
Bio-tone starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. To get great bloom time we recommend feeding your Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. These elegant emerald blue flowers are drought tolerant, deer resistant, and are an easy care. How do you fertilize Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox?įeeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. The phlox is great for mass planting and can even grow in rocky areas. The sun loving, creeping phlox forms a low growing mat-forming groundcover. Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox does prefer drier soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this is one. For your beautiful lavender blue flowers, we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot and damage your perennial planting. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper to create good drainage.
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