Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

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 perennial or annual.

The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. One of the finest cool weather performers. They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant.

Full sun to partial shade. Perennial in zones 9 11. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow.

It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants. Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. Annual up to zone 8. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.

Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. It s great in containers and hanging baskets. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.

A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders. 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. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. Royal carpet lobularia maritima.

Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. 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. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.

Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.

Perennials can live for more than two years. The type with white flowers carpet of. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging.