Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with. It s great in containers and hanging baskets.

Perennial in zones 9 11. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. Ha hardy annual. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year.

But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Perennials can live for more than two years.

Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging. Full sun to partial shade.

They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. The type with white flowers carpet of. Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds.

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. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms. 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. 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. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. Annual up to zone 8.

Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly. Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. One of the finest cool weather performers.