Flower Alyssum Royal Carpet

Vibrant shades of purple pastel pink and crisp white make this a great edging flower.

Flower alyssum royal carpet.

Alyssum plants are small about a few inches but they spread as much as a foot in diameter. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Also suitable for growing in rockeries mixed cottage gardens and containers. Royal carpet will produce clusters of beautiful purple flowers all summer long.

Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. Alyssum is a must have in my garden. Alyssum flowers are easy to grow and bloom quickly. Alyssum flowers are tiny and tightly grouped.

I enjoy seeing bees hover flies and all sorts of pollinators buzzing around and guarding my veggie plants. Sow seeds 6 inches apart and barely press in. Sowing directly in the garden. Alyssum may be sown directly in the garden after frost or planted as a potted plant.

Alyssum flowers are an adorable option for ground cover in gardens. Direct sow seeds in average soil in full sun to part shade after danger of heavy frost. Growing to a mature height of only 2 to 4 inches tall alyssum royal carpet makes a perfect groundcover plant and is widely used in pots containers and raised beds. I have a community garden plot and the carpet of snow and the royal carpet placing my reorder now border two of the four sides.

The tiny flower is so fragrant and fills the air with its mildly sweet scent early morning and evening. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season. Firm soil lightly and keep evenly moist. Grow alyssum royal carpet from fresh lobularia maritima flower seeds.

Royal carpet is great for adding colour to borders and edges as it won t shade out plants behind it. Big pack x alyssum royal carpet flower seeds 10 000 fragrant lobularia maritima attracts honey bees birds butterfly ground cover for zones 3 and up by myseeds co big pack 10 000 seeds.