Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.
Alyssum carpet of snow bloom time.
The carpet like flowers are often used for beddings edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.
Full sun to partial shade.
These plants make excellent landscape edging plants in the garden and even in containers.
Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.
This variety in particular attracts butterflies.
Royal carpet lobularia maritima.
Alyssum carpet of snow seeds short description.
Perennial in zones 9 11.
Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.
The burpee alyssum carpet of snow seed can be used to grow an annual spreading flower that has dainty pure white blooms growing on dwarf crawling plants.
Perennials can live for more than two years.
Flower clusters typically only reach 3.
The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.
It can be planted quite easily from seed either indoors or out and produces bunches of lovely white flowers.
Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide.
Sweet alyssums also will draw all sorts of pollinators to your garden.
Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.
For bedding edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
If compost is not available top dress the soil after planting with 1 2.
The type with white flowers carpet of snow is the most popular alyssum.
These plants really resemble neat piles of snow when viewed from a distance.
Sweet alyssum is a wonderful cool season annual that has been a long time favorite because of its dainty blossoms on tidy mounds of foliage.
Also sometimes called sweet alice or sweet alison is our most popular alyssum variety for good reason.
It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.
The foliage is barely visible under abundant clusters of white blooms.
The name of this type refers to the cluster of purple alyssum flowers which bloom throughout the summer and are one of the most beautiful types of alyssum.
A sea of fragrant blooms for edging.
Plant them in masses to create an abundance of its light honey fragrance.
New carpet of snow.
Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.
Designed to grow in partially shaded areas.
Alyssum carpet of snow 0 99 6 49 outstanding early blooming quick flowering low border annual which produces a blanket of thimble shaped clusters of pure white blossoms with a sweet honey like fragrance and delicate beauty all season.
Plant alyssum carpet of snow virtually throughout the season but be sure to.
Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates.
Grow heirloom alyssum plant carpet of snow sweetalyssum seedsthis aptly named flower ndash.
