Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders.

It s great in containers and hanging baskets. Full sun to partial shade. One of the finest cool weather performers. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.

Perennial in zones 9 11. Annual sow method this refers to whether the seed should be sown early indoors and the seedlings transplanted outside later or if the seed should be sown directly in the garden at the recommended planting time. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. The type with white flowers carpet of.

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. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms.

The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. Royal carpet lobularia maritima. Perennials can live for more than two years. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year.

Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant. The most common type of alyssum has white attractive flowers known as a carpet of snow and it s also flowers in yellow gold dust and pink with purple colours. Annual up to zone 8.

Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. Ha hardy annual.

Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.