Fragrant Pink Carnation Perennial Plant | Dianthus ‘Scent First Romance’ | Double Bloom Cottage Garden Flower | Deer Resistant

Fill your garden with fragrance and romantic color with Dianthus Scent First ‘Romance’, an award-winning perennial prized for its intensely scented, ruffled salmon-pink blooms and compact evergreen foliage. This charming carnation variety produces masses of double flowers with rich carmine-red centers from spring through fall. Perfect for sunny borders, rock gardens, containers, and pollinator spaces, this long-blooming perennial adds classic cottage garden beauty while remaining low maintenance and deer resistant.

🌟 Why Gardeners Love ‘Scent First Romance’

• 🌸 Highly fragrant double blooms
• 🌿 Compact evergreen foliage
• 🦋 Attracts butterflies and pollinators
• 🌞 Long blooming from spring through fall
• 🦌 Deer resistant and drought tolerant once established
• ✂️ Excellent for cut flower arrangements
• 🪴 Perfect for borders, containers, and rock gardens

🌱 Plant Details

Common Name: Carnation, Pinks, Sweet William Dianthus
Scientific Name: Dianthus Scent First ‘Romance’
Sunlight: Full Sun
Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
Soil: Well-drained, neutral to slightly alkaline soil
Hardiness Zones: 5–9
Growth Habit: Compact, Mounding
Format: Evergreen Perennial