We have a lot of phlox, mostly the reverted tall, pink, as seen here. The white in the background is also phlox, ‘David’. This pink seems to be what garden phlox breeds back to when it is allowed to cross and reseed. A named variety clump will stay true to itself, and can be propagated by division; but the majority of seedlings will be tall, middling pink. even when a true white such as ‘David’ is around Not all, of course! And isn’t that the problem, you keep all of them in hopes of one really neat one…
Acair Fearann 