Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

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Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

Perennials can live for more than two years. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. Alyssum carpet of snow is a popular annual. It belongs to the family brassicaceae and is a genus of over 100 to 150 species of flowering plants.

Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.

The type with white flowers carpet of. The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.

Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Perennial in zones 9 11. A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders.

Full sun to partial shade. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. Learn how to grow and care for this annual ground cover and what to plant it with.

Annual up to zone 8. 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. Royal carpet lobularia maritima. Dwarf plants are uniform and compact spreading rapidly.

Ha hardy annual. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. An easy to grow fragrant choice for edging. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.

Annuals complete their life cycles in one year. 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. 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. One of the finest cool weather performers.