Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia)
Sweet Alyssum Plant Features
The honey-scented flowers of sweet alyssum make this easy-care annual a delightful addition to hanging baskets, containers, or border edges. It's a compact, trailing plant that grows just 6 to 10 inches tall and produces trusses of gorgeous blooms in shades of pink, white, lavender, or purple. Sweet alyssum is also highly attractive to butterflies and other pollinators. This rugged annual flower is also relatively cold hardy so you can use it in the early spring when the temperatures hover in the 40s and 50s.Sweet Alyssum Questions?
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Sweet Alyssum Growing Instructions
Plant sweet alyssum in a sunny spot, with rich, well-drained soil. If you are using sweet alyssum in a pot or planter use a quality potting soil mix. Water sweet alyssum whenever the soil feels dry to the touch. In mid-summer the plants may produce fewer blooms. To encourage a new flush of flowers, shearing them back to remove faded blooms and shaggy growth.Sweet alyssum is not recommended for human or animal consumption.
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Water
Medium water needs
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Light
Outside: Sun
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Colors
Pink
Purple
White
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Special Features
Attracts butterflies
Groundcover
Super-easy to grow
Complement your Sweet Alyssum
PansyIn the early spring, mix Pansy and Sweet Alyssum together in the same pot.
Flowering Kale
Sweet Alyssum looks wonderful planted with Flowering Kale in the early spring or fall.
Dusty Miller
Create a tapestry of silver and white by pairing Dusty Miller with white-flowering varieties of Sweet Alyssum.
Calceolaria
Use fragrant sweet alyssum as an adorable carpet around unique calceolaria. Purple alyssum with yellow calceolaria is a show-stopping spring combination!
