Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

Full sun to partial shade.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. Annual up to zone 8. The type with white flowers carpet of.

Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. One of the finest cool weather performers. Royal carpet lobularia maritima. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly.

Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.

The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms.

It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Perennial in zones 9 11.

Perennials can live for more than two years. Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant. 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.

Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.

Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. 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.