garden pink

/ˌgɑrdn pɪŋk/

Other forms: garden pinks

Definitions of garden pink

1. noun

   any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
   synonyms: pink

   types:

   Dianthus barbatus, sweet William

   Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers

   Dianthus caryophyllus, carnation, clove pink, gillyflower

   Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

   Dianthus chinensis, china pink, rainbow pink

   Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual

   Dianthus deltoides, maiden pink

   low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center

   Diangus gratianopolitanus, cheddar pink

   mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers

   Dianthus latifolius, button pink

   much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William

   Dianthus plumarius, cottage pink, grass pink

   European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers

   Dianthus supurbus, fringed pink

   Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins

   Dianthus chinensis heddewigii, Japanese pink

   a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals

   type of:

   flower

   a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms