Alyssum Royal Carpet Annual Or Perennial

For an easy to grow perennial and an alyssum by any other name yellow alyssum is a delightful plant.

Alyssum royal carpet annual or perennial.

Purple fading to pale lavender and white on top. The plant produces a purple carpet of flowers. You will most likely spot alyssum as border plants edging large flower beds in containers and hanging baskets as a low lying spiller or. Full sun to partial shade.

Perennial in zones 9 11. Royal carpet purple 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. Sweet alyssum purple royal carpet seeds. It is popularly named as carpet because it is best when it is used as groundcover and grown about 2 4 inches only.

In warmer zones where it is grown as a perennial it doesn t last as long as other perennial plants. The royal carpet variety of alyssum is the taller and more colorful strain of its close cousin alyssum carpet of snow. Biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year. Suitable for rock gardens and borders.

The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. Plant the royal carpet alyssum along with carpet of snow alyssum to make a beautiful flower border. Royal carpet lobularia maritima. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped.

Colorful storybook edging for borders and beds. 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. Perennials can live for more than. The type with white flowers carpet of snow is the most popular alyssum.

Annual up to zone 8. Technically a perennial sweet alyssum is widely treated as if it were an annual plant in cold winter climates. But it is one of the hardier annuals capable of surviving light frosts that would kill more tender plants. Make sure alyssum royal carpet seeds are properly watered to stimulate healthy germination.

Mounding habit with plants reaching 4 6 inches tall and 10 12 inches wide. Hardy in zones 6 10 full sun part sun. A very versatile flower royal carpet can be planted just about any time throughout the season both indoors and out. Alyssum royal carpet seeds short description.

Technically a perennial it is usually grown as an annual in most regions of the united states. This is an excellent low height spreading variety that is very easy to grow. Life cycle this refers to whether a plant is an annual biennial or perennial. Its rounded clusters of flowers are fragrant.

Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent.