Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders. The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly. 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.

An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging. 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.

Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. It s great in containers and hanging baskets.

Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.

Full sun to partial shade. Perennial in zones 9 11. 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. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual.

Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. The type with white flowers carpet of. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Annual up to zone 8.

Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. One of the finest cool weather performers. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow.

Royal carpet lobularia maritima. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Perennials can live for more than two years. They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant.