Full sun to partial shade.
Alyssum carpet of snow bloom time.
It can be added to your planting area at any time.
Sweet alyssums also will draw all sorts of pollinators to your garden.
Royal carpet lobularia maritima.
It can be planted quite easily from seed either indoors or out and produces bunches of lovely white flowers.
For bedding edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
A sea of fragrant blooms for edging.
It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.
Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.
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.
This variety in particular attracts butterflies.
Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.
Plant them in masses to create an abundance of its light honey fragrance.
Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.
Alyssum carpet of snow seeds short description.
Also sometimes called sweet alice or sweet alison is our most popular alyssum variety for good reason.
Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.
New carpet of snow.
Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide.
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.
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.
The foliage is barely visible under abundant clusters of white blooms.
Similar to the regular carpet of snow but more compact.
Designed to grow in partially shaded areas.
Perennials can live for more than two years.
The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.
Perennial in zones 9 11.
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.
Plant alyssum carpet of snow virtually throughout the season but be sure to.
Annual up to zone 8.
But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.
Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.
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 carpet like flowers are often used for beddings edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
