Alyssum Carpet Of Snow Perennial Or Annual

They are a perennial and annual herbaceous plant.

Alyssum carpet of snow perennial or annual.

One of the finest cool weather performers. Perennial in zones 9 11. Perennials can live for more than two years. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year.

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. Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. Sweet alyssum produces a carpet of abundant tiny flowers that resemble snow when planted in masses. It s great in containers and hanging baskets.

The type with white flowers carpet of. Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. The flowers have a light sweet fragrance. Royal carpet lobularia maritima.

Alyssum snow carpet improved strain seeds. Full sun to partial shade. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant. A fragrant choice for well drained soils in rock gardens and borders.

The bushy plants trail along the ground filling in spaces between larger annuals and perennials. Ha hardy annual. Tiny pure white blossoms blanket the ground like new fallen snow. Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates.

Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Hugs the ground and freely produces a carpet of white flowers. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing 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. 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. 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.

Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. Annual up to zone 8. Blooms again and again if trimmed back to remove faded blossoms.