Phlox 'Drummond's Pink' | Creekside Champions™

About Creekside Champions™

Creekside Champions™ are standout plants personally selected by the Creekside Nursery team for their exceptional garden performance, beauty, and reliability. Each variety earns its place in the collection by offering something truly special—whether it’s outstanding color, an extended bloom season, improved habit, pollinator appeal, or dependable performance in the landscape. These are plants we’re proud to grow and confident recommending for gardens across the country. Family Grown. Proven Performance.

Phlox 'Drummond's Pink'

Common Name: Creeping Phlox

Phlox 'Drummond's Pink' is a low-growing perennial that creates a beautiful carpet of rich rose-pink flowers in mid spring. A replacement for 'Emerald Pink', this variety offers a deeper rose color and larger flowers for an even more impressive display when in bloom.

Growing just 4–6 inches tall and spreading 18–20 inches wide, 'Drummond's Pink' forms a dense, ground-hugging mat of green foliage. Its spreading habit makes it especially useful along the front of borders, as an edging plant, across slopes, or tucked into rock gardens where it can create a blanket of spring color.

Native to North America, this easy-to-grow perennial thrives in full sun and is adaptable to average or fertile soils. It has low to average water needs and is salt tolerant. Its spring flowers are also attractive to butterflies and bees, adding valuable pollinator interest to the garden.

Why it's a Creekside Champion™

Phlox 'Drummond's Pink' earns its place as a Creekside Champion™ because of the incredible impact it creates from such a compact plant. We love its rich rose-pink flowers, larger blooms, and spreading habit that can transform borders, slopes, and rocky areas into a carpet of spring color. Its easy-care nature, evergreen foliage, salt tolerance, and appeal to pollinators make it a dependable perennial that provides beauty beyond its bloom season.

Plant Type: Perennial
Exposure: Full Sun
Height: 4–6″
Width: 18–20″
Habit: Low-Growing/Spreading
Bloom Time(s): Mid Spring
Growth Rate: Medium
Flower Color: Rose Pink
Foliage Color: Green
Evergreen: Yes
Water: Low to Average Water Needs
Soil: Average to Fertile
Soil pH: Neutral
Salt Tolerant: Yes
Attracts: Butterflies & Bees
Native: North America
Hardiness Zones: 2–9
Best Uses: Borders, edging, groundcover, mass plantings, slopes & rock gardens