Perennial in zones 9 11.
Alyssum carpet of snow bloom time.
Also sometimes called sweet alice or sweet alison is our most popular alyssum variety for good reason.
New carpet of snow.
The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.
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.
Similar to the regular carpet of snow but more compact.
Sweet alyssums also will draw all sorts of pollinators to your garden.
Plant them in masses to create an abundance of its light honey fragrance.
For bedding edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
A sea of fragrant blooms for edging.
But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.
It can be planted quite easily from seed either indoors or out and produces bunches of lovely white flowers.
Alyssum carpet of snow seeds short description.
It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.
Designed to grow in partially shaded areas.
Annual up to zone 8.
Royal carpet lobularia maritima.
Flower clusters typically only reach 3.
This variety in particular attracts butterflies.
Plant alyssum carpet of snow virtually throughout the season but be sure to.
Grow heirloom alyssum plant carpet of snow sweetalyssum seedsthis aptly named flower ndash.
The type with white flowers carpet of snow is the most popular alyssum.
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 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.
Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.
Full sun to partial shade.
Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.
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.
The carpet like flowers are often used for beddings edgings rock gardens and window boxes.
Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.
These plants make excellent landscape edging plants in the garden and even in containers.
Perennials can live for more than two years.
These plants really resemble neat piles of snow when viewed from a distance.
The foliage is barely visible under abundant clusters of white blooms.
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.
