Creeping Phlox ‘Eye Candy’ – Evergreen Ground Cover with Pink Spring Flowers

Product Overview

Phlox subulata ‘Eye Candy’ is a low-growing evergreen perennial known for its soft lavender-pink flowers featuring a deep wine-purple eye. This creeping phlox forms a dense, colorful mat that works well as ground cover, in rock gardens, or cascading over edges, creating a vibrant spring carpet.

Key Features

• Eye-catching pink flowers with dark centers
• Dense flowering ground cover
• Ideal for slopes, borders, and rock gardens
• Evergreen foliage providing year-round interest
• Attracts pollinators such as bees and butterflies

Plant Details

• Botanical name: Phlox subulata ‘Eye Candy’
• Common name: Creeping Phlox
• Type: Evergreen perennial ground cover
• Height: 4–6 inches
• Spread: Up to 20 inches
• Bloom time: Early to mid-spring

Care Instructions

• Light: Full sun
• Water: Moderate; allow soil to dry between watering once established
• Soil: Well-draining soil, neutral to slightly alkaline preferred
• Maintenance: Trim after blooming to maintain shape

Hardiness

• USDA Zones: 3–9
• Very cold hardy and reliable

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.