Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

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Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.

Perennial in zones 9 11. The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Perennials can live for more than two years. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.

Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide.

It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants. Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Full sun to partial shade. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly.

Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. 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. Ha hardy annual. One of the finest cool weather performers.

It s great in containers and hanging baskets. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms. Annual up to zone 8.

A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging. Royal carpet lobularia maritima.

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. 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. Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates.