Stock

A couple of years ago, my wife planted some stock and this is the best it has ever looked.

 

theyre really beautiful and do they smell as wonderful as they look? you cant beat the old favourites

 

Smells like a bottle of perfume! You can smell it from about 10 ft away.

 

wonderful i so love the smell and eileen i agree with you night scented stocks are my fav have memories of childhood of the smell drifting through the open bedroom window in summer

 

Are stock the same as Phlox? They look similar and very pretty.

Gardengater

 

I have just ordered some night scented stock seeds funnily enough. They look fab and I can't wait to grow some in my garden next year.

 

How gorgeous! Stock is one of my all time favorite flowers!

 

Both of those flowers look just like Phlozx that I have in my garden.
Are "Stock" the same as Phlox?

 

I think you are right...I know the second one looks a lot more like phlox then it does stock. stock has poofier flowers.

 

I am now 100% sure that the pinkish one is in fact a Phlox....the Phlox paniculata. See http://www.gardenstew.com/plantstew/30973
---and click to the second image.
It is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
I believe that stocks also have flowers growing out from a central syem sort of like a Delphenium.

 

You are very right. The leaves and flowers of the stock as also a bit velvety. Here is the best picture I could find of stock. It is the white flowers. All the flowers grow right on in stem.

I have the pink and white flowers growing here and it is definately phlox.

 

Stock and Phlox...I love them both!
But I think that both shots are of Phlox

 

I agree they are both phlox...

I posted the pic above to show was stock looks like.