Spring flowers in Japan: cherry blossom dianthus

Spring flowers in Japan: cherry blossom dianthus

There are a wide range of Dianthus flowers grown in japan. In this post: 'cherry blossom' dianthus. In Japanese they are called sakura nadeshiko 桜ナデシコ. The 桜 (sakura) is sometimes written in katakana rather than kanji: サクラ。 Sakura means cherry blossom and nadeshiko means dianthus.Sakura Dianthus or cherry blossom dianthus looks very like creeping phlox. In fact, I often see people posting sakura dianthus on social media as creeping phlox! Howeve…