Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

It s great in containers and hanging baskets. 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. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. Ha hardy annual.

Perennials can live for more than two years. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. Annual up to zone 8.

It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly.

One of the finest cool weather performers. 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. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. Perennial in zones 9 11.

Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. The type with white flowers carpet of.

The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms.

Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging.

Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. 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.