Dianthus gratianopolitanus, or cheddar pink, is especially good, planted closely enough so that the foliage runs together.

Smaller pockets can hold whatever your heart desires - cheddar pinks or bellflowers, columbines, forget-me-nots, thyme.

These plants include the Bristol Onion, Cheddar Pink and various species of Whitebeam.

Less common plants include the cheddar pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) and Somerset hair grass (Koeleria vallesiana).

Covering some of the rock outcrops are clumps of Cheddar Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus), which is a nationally rare species.

Among flowers there are : Carthusian Pink, Cheddar Pink, anemones, snowdrops, blue squills and liverworts.

Meadows of cheddar pink and Alpine aster and Anthericum heath in the Bode Gorge have been classified as rock meadows.

But not too soon, because skipping ahead to autumn would mean bypassing spring and the blooming mounds of cheddar pinks, fortui tously planted in a sandy site that they love.

Dianthus gratianopolitanus - the Cheddar Pink - was chosen as the County flower of Somerset in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife.

Here are found the last remains of virgin forest and gnarled sessile oak forests with St. Bernard's lilies, and the highest incidence in Hesse of Cheddar pinks.

The rocks lie north of the Wutach and are quartz porphyry formation up to 80 metres high that are also called the Nägelefels due to the presence of Cheddar Pinks.

The gardens include a fragrant assortment of sweet alyssum, cheddar pinks, lemon balm and scented geranium; a Shakespeare garden; and a thyme terrace of English, broad leaf, crimson, silver leaf and dozens of other thymes.

Four nationally rare plants are present, including Little Robin Geranium purpureum, Cheddar Pink Dianthus gratianopolitanus and Cheddar Bedstraw Galium fleurotii, two of which are endemic to the Cheddar area, as well as fifteen nationally scarce species.

Dianthus gratianopolitanus (Cheddar pink) is a species belonging to the Caryophyllaceae family.

The Cheddar pink, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, also known as firewitch, only grows in the wild in the gorge.

Less common plants include the cheddar pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) and Somerset hair grass (Koeleria vallesiana).

Covering some of the rock outcrops are clumps of Cheddar Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus), which is a nationally rare species.

Missouri Botanical Garden: Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Grandiflorus'

Dianthus L. Dianthus barbatus L. Dianthus caryophyllus L. Dianthus gratianopolitanus Vill.

The annotated list went on for several pages, headed by Rose de Mai ("because the blossoms last so long") followed by Rainbow Loveliness, Dianthus superbus, Dianthus arenarius, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, Mrs. Sinkins, Grenadin and so on.

Four nationally rare plants are present, including Little Robin Geranium purpureum, Cheddar Pink Dianthus gratianopolitanus and Cheddar Bedstraw Galium fleurotii, two of which are endemic to the Cheddar area, as well as fifteen nationally scarce species.