Perpetual bliss
The genus Dianthus belongs to the family Caryophyllaceae, which comprises 80 genera and 3,000 species. Dianthus caryophyllus, the original carnation, is endemic to southern Europe and was introduced into England about the time of the Norman Conquest.
Engelmann and Allwoods soon started growing perpetual flowering carnations and bred new cultivars. By the 1930s they had become the dominant glasshouse carnation
The group of known as perpetual flowering carnations are a result of crosses between . and . and originated in France at
