Alyssum
Very pretty, low growing, hardy perennials and annuals. Small pillows of multiple tiny flowers, continuing to flower throughout the summer. Sweetly scented. For prolonged flowering snip off the seedpods after each bloom.
Suggested sowing time:
(Key: sow indoors,
sow outside,
sow outside under cover.)
Use:
The dwarf spreading habit of these plants make them particularly good for edging, rockeries, hanging baskets, between paving and dry stone walls. For an effective display interplant with Lobelia 'Crystal Palace'.
Varieties:
Alyssum maritimum 'Carpet of Snow' - Ideal plants for borders, edging and rockeries.Alyssum saxatile var. compactum 'Gold Dust' - An attractive grey-leaved perennial which bears trailing flower spikes of rich golden yellow.
Alyssum maritimum 'Golf Mix' - Attracts butterflies
Alyssum maritimum 'Little Dorrit' - Probably the most commonly grown alyssum.
Alyssum maritimum 'Minimum'
Alyssum maritimum 'Oriental Night'
Alyssum maritimum 'Rosie O'Day'
Alyssum maritimum 'Royal Carpet'
Alyssum maritimum 'Snow Carpet' - Larger flowered variety
Alyssum maritimum 'Snow Crystals' - Larger flowered variety
Alyssum maritimum 'Snow Drift'
Alyssum maritimum 'Wonderland'
Seeds to plant now:
Indoor or in a heated greenhouse
Ageratum
Aubergine
Bell Pepper, pepper
Cardoon
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Columbine
Cress
Cucumber
Floss flower, Ageratum
Lobelia
Ornamental Pepper
Pepper
Petunia
Salvia
Tomato
Outside
Antwerp hollyhock, Fig-leaved hollyhock, hollyhock
Beetroot, Garden beet
Borecole, Kale
Bristly hollyhock
Broccoli
Brussels sprout
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Common hollyhock
Normandy sorrel
Onion
Ornamental winter kale
Parsnip
Radish
Spinach
Spinach, Summer spinach
Spring onion
Sweet pea
Turnip
Outside under cover
Brussels sprout
Carrot
Cauliflower
Courgette
Cucumber
French marigold
Marrow
Onion
Pea
Snapdragon
Sweet corn
Tomato