
Sweet Alyssum
- Botanical Name
- Lobularia maritima
- Hardiness
- Hardy annual
- Height
- 4 to 8 inches
- Width
- 10 to 15 inches
- Flowers
- Spring thru frost: white, purple, pink, apricot
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Space 6 to 8 inches apart for a quick cover
- Sweet alyssum will fade out in hot summers - trim back to rejuvenate
- Tolerates light frost
- Problems
- Damping off of seedlings
- Varieties
- New Carpet of Snow - 3-4"
- Snow Crystals - large flowering low grower, good heat tolerance
- Easter Bonnet - compact and uniform, various colors
- Rosie O'Day - lavender-rose
- Wonderland - 3", various colors
- Snow Princess - abundant, highly fragrant small white blooms all season long; vigorous plant that thrives in hot or cold
- Frosty Knight - fragrant, white flowers with variegated green and yellow foliage and very heat tolerant plants
- Dark Knight - masses of fragrant purple flowers grace mounded plants, blooms all summer, very heat tolerant
- White Knight - fragrant white blooms cover green foliage from planting to hard frost, very heat tolerant, great in landscapes and containers
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