Phlox plant named ‘Rocky Road Violet Blue’

Abstract

A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Rocky Road Violet Blue’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright glossy-green, linear leaves. Flowering begins in mid-April and continuing for up to five weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals of newly opened flowers are violet-blue with dark pink eye marks and with a small notch and the tips of the petals, and just before dropping petal centers lighten to white and marks in eye fade away. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hybrid Creeping  Phlox, Phlox  plant named ‘Rocky Road Violet Blue’, as herein described and illustrated.