Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates.
Alyssum royal carpet annual or perennial.
Hardy in zones 6 10 full sun part sun.
The type with white flowers carpet of snow is the most popular alyssum.
Life cycle this refers to whether a plant is an annual biennial or perennial.
Full sun to partial shade.
Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide.
Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top.
Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year.
Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.
A very versatile flower royal carpet can be planted just about any time throughout the season both indoors and out.
It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.
The royal carpet variety of alyssum is the taller and more colorful strain of its close cousin alyssum carpet of snow.
Sweet alyssum purple royal carpet seeds.
This is an excellent low height spreading variety that is very easy to grow.
Suitable for rock gardens and borders.
For an easy to grow perennial and an alyssum by any other name yellow alyssum is a delightful plant.
But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants.
Annual up to zone 8.
Royal carpet lobularia maritima.
Plant the royal carpet alyssum along with carpet of snow alyssum to make a beautiful flower border.
The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.
Perennials can live for more than.
Cbr perennial zones 7 9 annual that reseeds itself in all other zones.
Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.
Perennial in zones 9 11.
Other names for this plant include aurinia saxatilis or aurinia saxitilis and the older classification of this flower is alyssum saxatile another classification has it listed as aurinia saxatilis compacta and its more common names are.
Annuals complete their life cycles in one year.
Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.
The plant produces a purple carpet of flowers.
In warmer zones where it is grown as a perennial it doesn t last as long as other perennial plants.
Technically a perennial it is usually grown as an annual in most regions of the united states.
Colorful storybook edging for borders and beds.
Alyssum royal carpet seeds short description.
You will most likely spot alyssum as border plants edging large flower beds in containers and hanging baskets as a low lying spiller or.