Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates.
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These plants make excellent landscape edging plants in the garden and even in containers.
Royal carpet lobularia maritima.
The foliage is barely visible under abundant clusters of white blooms.
Similar to the regular carpet of snow but more compact.
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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.
Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide.
Full sun to partial shade.
Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.
Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.
The type with white flowers carpet of snow is the most popular alyssum.
Designed to grow in partially shaded areas.
Perennial in zones 9 11.
Sweet alyssums also will draw all sorts of pollinators to your garden.
Also sometimes called sweet alice or sweet alison is our most popular alyssum variety for good reason.
This variety in particular attracts butterflies.
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Plant them in masses to create an abundance of its light honey fragrance.
It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.
If compost is not available top dress the soil after planting with 1 2.
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.
These plants really resemble neat piles of snow when viewed from a distance.
But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.
Perennials can live for more than two years.
Annual up to zone 8.
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.
It can be planted quite easily from seed either indoors or out and produces bunches of lovely white flowers.
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.
It can be added to your planting area at any time.
A sea of fragrant blooms for edging.
Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.
For bedding edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
Flower clusters typically only reach 3.
Alyssum carpet of snow seeds short description.
Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.
The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.
