Solved Plant ID needed please

Hi guys
My friends carnation has new growth on it. Is it carnation or a different flower? The carnation is woody as well.. Is that ok? Big thanks in advance

 

Looks like a carnation, but a bit leggy, not sure you can do much about that at this time of the year.

 

Big thanks.. In the spring what shoulf my friend do with the carnation? Remove the woody stems?

 

Not really a carnation grower, so I hesitate to answer.
My thoughts are shorten the leggyist stems.
But hold fire on that incase some one else knows more.

 

I'm not sure what it is because I still can't work out what the difference between carnations and pinks is. I know carnations are typically taller and less hardy, is that it?

Nick

 

Aren't pinks more of a bushy plant?

 

I think they generally are, so that might be one distinction. I haven't tried growing carnations, got some seed years ago but never ended up sowing it. I got an Allwoods catalogue and fancied growing the heritage pinks but didn't have any luck with them, probably partly due to me overwatering. I still think the flowers have a certain simple beauty to them!

https://www.allwoods.net/online-store/Elizabethan-Pink-Believed-1700s-p83926269

https://www.allwoods.net/online-store/Farnham-Rose-Pre-1966-p83926306

Only pink I ever had any joy with was this one, performed really well and the scent was amazing but it got quite leggy after a couple of years and I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I sort of gave up on the whole genus and never bothered with the carnation seeds.

https://www.allwoods.net/online-store/Widecombe-Fair-1971-p83926157

I'm hoping that somebody experienced will contribute to the thread and give tips on growing because I do find them beautiful and fascinating!

Nick

 

I've only really tried them a long time ago when I was young and didn't have a clue what I was doing.
I think they are relatively easy to grow but some require greenhouse conditions and get really tall.

 

Pinks are Dianthus and grow low to the ground so would suggest that the image above shows a Carnation. I've not grown Carnations so wouldn't know whether to prune or not. The Carnation above may have grown leggy because it's crowded by other plants in the pot.

 

Thanks for all your help. The carnation was on its own in a planter, looking like it does now. Other plants added last week to planter