Plant your Creeping Phlox with a little compost mixed into the surrounding soil. Apply a light fertilizer before and after bloom time. Deadhead spent blooms using a shearing method, and shear again in fall. This plant is drought-tolerant once established, and it grows with ease.

No foot traffic on the white carpet! The Amazing Grace variety of Creeping Phlox provides a beautiful white mat of flowers for several weeks in mid-spring through early summer. This resilient ground cover takes hold so well, it is an ideal choice for a low mat of color along borders, under taller plantings in garden beds, on slopes, and in places where it can spill over rocks. With good salt and deer tolerance, this is a reliable way to cover ground and attract pollinators (plus garden admirers). Amazing Grace has white flowers comprised of petals that join together with tiny purple dots. These dots seem to connect each petal to a minuscule orange centerpoint. When looking at this flower mat from afar, all you will see is white, but look closer and you can marvel at the details on each tiny flower.

For more information please see our article on choosing, locating, planting and maintaining ground cover plants.