Agree, Lucy.
Still, I need to start paying more attention to the average and range of bloom times of individual garden phlox cultivars.
The weather so far this summer has been good for blooming phlox, though we have had to do some watering.
Great thing about this trip and plants, Janice, was being able to bring plants back (i.e. was travelling just within this country).
It's ironic that we can bring things like booze back from other countries, but not seemingly harmless things like plants (at least with any soil on the roots).
But I do admit that there's more to it than that.
Think the big agricultural focus here has been keeping out several potato pathogens.