Carnation Swing

Add striking colour and charm to your garden with Carnation Swing, a beautiful spray variety known for its long, elegant stems and eye-catching bicolour blooms. Each cluster features rich red flowers delicately tipped with crisp white, creating a vibrant contrast that stands out in garden beds, borders, and floral arrangements. With its graceful growth and abundance of blooms, Carnation Swing brings a lively burst of colour and a touch of classic carnation beauty to any planting space.

This Spray Carnation produces multiple smaller blooms on each branching stem, creating a naturally full, textured effect that adds depth, movement and long-lasting beauty to every bouquet.

Renowned for their vibrant blooms, attractive silvery-grey foliage and often sweet, clove-like fragrance, Carnations have long been a traditional favourite for cut flowers. A cultivated form of Dianthus caryophyllus, they produce an abundance of long-lasting blooms on tall, elegant stems, making them especially suited to floral displays where structure and longevity matter. Bred specifically for the cut flower market, Carnations are available in two distinct forms: Standard Carnations, which bear one large, elegant bloom per stem, and Spray Carnations, which carry multiple smaller flowers on branching stems for a naturally full and beautifully textured effect.

Exceptionally easy to grow, these tough perennials reward gardeners with masses of blooms held above neat mounds of silvery foliage. As a taller cut flower variety, staking is recommended to support the stems and maintain their graceful, upright form throughout the season.

Ideal for pots, edging and sunny borders, Carnations flower continuously, delivering reliable colour and performance across the season. They thrive in a full sun position with well-drained soil and benefit from regular watering and feeding during the growing period. Frequent picking for the vase, or removing spent blooms, will encourage more buds to form, resulting in a generous and long-lasting display.