Alyssum - Sweet - Royal Carpet
- Seeds per pack: 150+
Seed Details
Foamy white, sweetly scented, early blooms on easy to grow versatile plants. Use in beds, borders or containers. Flowers are edible. Sweet Alyssum is a member of the mustard family. While not frost tolerant, sweet alyssum plants will self sow and can provide you with a returning display of glowing white in milder climates. Great for a moon garden when planted in masses. Royal Carpet alyssum produces a dense, cascading mat of rich violet-purple flowers with tiny white flowers atop the cascade of purple blooms. Use in beds, borders or containers. Flowers are edible. Add a sweet scent to a patio, or carpet your flower beds in royal purple. Planted en masse they suppress weeds and the bees will be abundant. Add it to your vegetable garden to improve pollination and yield of your treasured food crops
Instructions
Sow from seed in early spring in seed flats indoors for transplant after all dangers of frost has passed. Surface sow the tiny seed and keep lightly moist until germination. A spray bottle that mists are very handy, unless you are watering from the bottom. When the tiny seedlings have several pairs of 'true leaves' and soil temperatures outdoors are at 60 F.(16 C.) degrees, you can transplant them into a prepared bed that has good drainage. Germination is 7 to 14 days.
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| Type: | Annuals |
| Seed #: | 108 |
| Latin Name: | Lobularia maritima |
| Variety: | Snow Bank |
| Colour: | purple and white |
| Temperature (C): | 13 - 25 |
| Zone: | 3+ |
| Blooms: | June to September |
| Site: | Part Shade |
| Quantity: | 150 |
| Height (cm): | 10 - 40 |
| Spread (cm): | 30 - 40 |
