Royal Carpet Flower

The royal carpet variety of alyssum is the taller and more colorful strain of its close cousin alyssum carpet of snow.

Royal carpet flower.

Monitor for pests and diseases. Check with your local cooperative extension service for pest. Annual sow indoors or outdoors. By mid summer you can smell the sweet scent of alyssum.

Royal carpet alyssum flowers have a wildflower like hardiness and are most commonly broadcasted directly after the frost. Colorful storybook edging for borders and beds. Sweet alyssum sweet alison seed type. Royal carpet is great for adding colour to borders and edges as it won t shade out plants behind it.

Sweet alyssum is a delicate carpet of tiny flowers with a subtle sweet scent. Lobularia maritima other names. Make sure alyssum royal carpet seeds are properly watered to stimulate healthy germination. Shear plants back by one half after the first flush of flowers has ended to encourage new buds to form.

Grow alyssum royal carpet from fresh lobularia maritima flower seeds. Its gray green leaves are slightly hairy narrow and lance shaped. Royal carpet alyssum is a low growing spreading annual flower to 15cm tall that produces masses of sweetly fragrant deep violet to mauve coloured flowers. The low growing foliage covers the ground with tiny cross shaped four petal flowers for much of the growing season.

Plants self sow so allow some to set seeds. Alyssum royal carpet seeds short description. Vibrant shades of purple pastel pink and crisp white make this a great edging flower. They are ideal for rock walls and sunny rock gardens or in any well drained location with good sunny position.

For earliest blooms begin seeds 6 8 weeks indoors prior to the 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. The reliable easy to grow sweet alyssum lobularia maritima spills its carpet of tiny snowy white or rich purple flowers over walkways garden edging and the lips of pots all summer long with. Also suitable for growing in rockeries mixed cottage gardens and containers.

A very versatile flower royal carpet can be planted just about any time throughout the season both indoors and out. Royal carpet will produce clusters of beautiful purple flowers all summer long. What s best about alyssum plants is that they are tiny and easy to grow. Big pack 60 000 alyssum royal carpet seeds fragrant lobularia maritima attracts honey bees butterfly ground cover for zones 3 flower seeds by myseeds co big pack alyssum royal carpet 5 0 out of 5 stars 1.