I.D. Please

Hi Folks, could someone please identify this annual for me please. I like it and want to get some more, but don't know what it is called. Please see attached image.
Thank you
John

 

Hi John and welcome to GC.

Phlox perhaps? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox

 

Welcome John It's a phlox, the same colour flowers as mine (when they eventually come out!)

 

I think you will also find it's a perennial, going from the plants in my front bed which look identical to your Phlox. The smell is an acquired taste, hence my calling it a smell rather than a scent.

 

There are annual Phlox as well as the perennial ones and the low growing Alpine ones.

 

Wish mine was, then I might have a chance to get rid of it!

 

Thanks one and all. Very much obliged.
John