Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden in East Hardwick, Vermont, is holding its annual Phlox Festival now through August 11. This is the time when the majority of their 137 phlox are blooming, and so it’s a wonderful opportunity to see dozens of cultivars in bloom, and to see firsthand the differences in color, shape, height and fragrance, which are so difficult to describe in writing. It’s a pretty nice show of color, and they think you’ll be happy to discover how much action there can be in a late summer garden, especially when phlox are combined with other late-bloomers such as heleniums, asters, burnets and coneflowers. More than 60 varieties should be blooming in the gardens. Daily garden tours at 11 am. Door prizes. Tea room. For more information call 802-472-5104, or visit www.perennialpleasures.net.