Produces a Continuous Bloom

This plant produces continuous blooms, showcasing beautiful honey-scented, lacy white flowers that grow swiftly from seeds sown outdoors in early spring. Dense clusters of tiny snow-white flowers will keep blooming throughout the season, as long as you trim back the spent blossoms to promote ongoing flowering.

Low Growing Ground Cover

Sweet Alyssum functions as an excellent low-growing groundcover, making it an ideal choice for filling in garden spaces or creating a lush, dense carpet of greenery and flowers. Its compact growth habit allows it to spread effectively while maintaining a neat and tidy appearance, perfect for edging flower beds, pathways, or container gardens.

Excellent Container Plant

This perennial white flower seeds is an ideal choice for containers or as a border plant in flower beds. Its compact growth and continuous blooms add vibrant color and texture to pots, planters, and mixed arrangements. This low-growing plant thrives along garden edges, offering a attractive look throughout the season in various outdoor settings.

Deer Proof

These fragrant, honey-scented heirloom flowers are unpalatable to deer, making them ideal for gardens where deer may be an issue. While deterring deer, they also attract beneficial insects, helping to support the overall health and growth of your flower garden. This makes them a great addition to any outdoor space that needs both beauty and resilience.

Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima - Benthamii) - What wonderful, honey-scented lacy white flowers that bloom quickly from flower seeds sown outside in early spring. The dense clusters of tiny snow-white flowers bloom continuously throughout the growing season if the spent blossoms are trimmed back. A compact, rapid growing variety which is drought tolerant and heat resistant and is excellent in containers or along the front of the flower bed. Sweet Alyssum can be used in a flower bed, container, hanging basket, or a window box and will attract many beneficial insects. Lobularia Maritima has been used medicinally to treat colds, coughs, abdominal pain, and rabies.

Lovely Ground Cover

How To Grow

Lobularia flowers needs well-drained soil with medium moisture. Although it may reseed, it is best to transplant starts in spring for the best flower display. Either sow seeds indoors several weeks before the average last frost, or directly in the garden once danger of frost has passed. Trim to keep fresh blossoms, and to start new shoots, shake flower seeds from older plants directly on the soil to encourage re-seeding.

• Environment: full sun to partial shade
• Soil: well-drained with pH 6.0-6.5
• Moisture: keep soil moist but not wet

Plant Specifications

Alyssum is an annual flowering plant that is grows in USDA zones 4 through 9. It is a popular choice for a low-growing filler plant, and it produces an abundance of tiny blooms that give a lovely mounding appearance.

• Bloom color: mix
• Bloom season: late spring to summer
• Plant height: 4-5 inches

Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima Mix) - Alyssum drought tolerant plants grow well in full sun to partial shade, and they make a wonderful annual ground cover plant. This Lobularia Maritima seed mix offers blooms in white and shades of purple and violet. It is low-growing, branching, and has a trailing habit. Alyssum is easy to grow from flower seeds, and it is dependable and versatile in its many uses. Because Lobularia Maritima has a tidy, compact growth habit it is ideal for edging the xeriscape flower garden and for containers as well.

Alyssum is an old-fashioned favorite. The dainty, spreading plants are covered with clusters of small, sweetly fragrant flowers. Bees love the lavender and white blossoms. Sow Lobularia flower seed directly outdoors once danger of frost has passed. Trim to keep fresh blossoms, and to start new shoots, shake flower seeds from older plants directly on the soil to encourage re-seeding.

Alyssum (Montanum Mountain Gold) - This is a popular rock garden perennial Alyssum for the spring garden and xeriscape landscaping. Alyssum Montanum establishes itself easily from flower seeds sown directly outdoors. It forms a low, trailing mound of silvery-gray leaves, and it produces a mass of bright-yellow flowers in mid to late spring. Alyssum plants benefit from a light trim after blooming to maintain a bushy habit, and they require good drainage. Once established, plants need very little water for survival.

Alyssum seed | mountain gold

How to grow

How To Grow Alyssum from Seed: Alyssum thrives best in dry, rocky soil and has a preference to full sun although it will tolerate light shade. After sowing Alyssum seeds, maintain adequate moisture to ensure germination and establishment, but once Mountain Gold Alyssum is established, it is drought tolerant. This is a perennial for every flower garden!

Make sure you plant when it is warm outside. If spring planting, frost season should be over and night time temps staying in the upper 40's or warmer. If late summer planting, make sure you have 8 - 10 weeks before frost season begins.

• Sowing Rate: Approximately 5000 seeds covers 100 square feet or 4 - 6 seeds per plant
• Average Germ Time: 7 - 21 days
• Give them plenty of water in dry weather
• Environment: Full sun to partial shade
• Depth: Cover lightly with peat moss after surface sowing

Flower Specifications

Mountain Alyssum is a perennial ground cover with evergreen foliage. It is not only excellent in rock gardens, but can be used in borders, or even as a container flower with other alpine plants.

• Height: 4 - 6 inches
• USDA Zones: 3 - 9
• Season: Perennial
• Deer Resistant: Yes
• Drought Tolerant: Yes

Lovely Annual

How To Grow

Plant seeds outdoors once temperatures have reached 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit. Do not cover the seeds, but press tightly into the earth: the seeds must be able to receive sunlight directly to germinate. Sow approximately 5000 seeds to cover 100 square feet, or sow 4-6 seeds per plant. Space individual plants 6 inches apart. Keep soil slightly moist, but not wet. Seeds take 7-21 days to germinate. Grow seeds in well-drained, moderately fertile soil. Best is gritty, loamy soil in full son. Trim lightly after flowering to maintain compact shape in the plant.

• Environment: full sun to partial shade
• Soil: well-drained w' pH 6.0-6.5
• Sowing rate: 4-6 seeds per plant

Plant Specifications

Alyssum is an annual low-growing flowering plant that grows in USDA zones 3 through 9. It is a popular choice for a lovely ground cover, and it is excellent at attracting beneficial pollinators to the garden.

• Bloom color: purple
• Bloom season: spring to fall
• Plant height: 4 inches

Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima Oriental Nights) - Alyssum plants and resistant to drought and make a great addition to pots, containers, and baskets. Grow as much as you need from Alyssum seeds! The flower seed can be started either indoors before frost season is over or directly outside once temperatures have warmed up. Oriental Nights Alyssum has clumps of foliage that are loaded with violet-purple flowers. This Alyssum plant grown from seeds grows to 4 inches in height, and the flowers have a lovely honey fragrance. The height and color of this variety make it perfect for accenting other ornamentals and great for xeriscape gardening. Alyssum care should include a light trim to encourage more blooming and keeping the soil moist but not saturated.

Alyssum Seeds | Violet Queen

How to Grow

Sow Alyssum seeds directly outdoors after the last frost of the season or start seeds indoors 5-6 weeks before last frost. Lightly press seeds into the surface of the soil. Do not bury, as exposing seeds to sunlight is needed for germination.

• Sowing Rate: 1000 seeds per 20 square feet
• Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination

Flower Specifications

Alyssum is a spreading plant, so keep plants 6-8 inches apart.

• Height: 6 inches
• USDA Zones: 3 - 9
• Season: Annual

Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima Violet Queen) - Alyssum plants are wonderful for the front of the flower border or spilling out of containers. Starting flower seeds is a great way to have as many plants as you want! Violet Queen Alyssum has numerous rich violet-purple, fragrant flowers that can bloom all summer long. It grows to approximately 6 inches tall, and even though this flowering plant is an annual, it is a prolific re-seeder. Alyssum seeds often germinate the next spring and provide some plants for the following growing season.

Lobularia Maritima is an excellent choice for edging flower bed borders, containers and xeriscape landscaping. Alyssum seeds need to be planted in a prepared seedbed with well-draining soil. Soggy soil can rot the tender roots of this plant as these plants are resistant to drought so they do not need a lot of water.

Rosy-Pink, Fragrant Blooms

The rosy-pink blooms of Rosie O'Day alyssum make it an excellent choice for gardeners looking for colorful flower seeds to enhance their outdoor spaces. This compact, aromatic flower adds charm and beauty, making it a popular option for creating vibrant, fragrant ground cover.

Ground Cover

As a dense, low-growing plant, Rosie O'Day alyssum is ideal for ground cover, spreading quickly to fill garden beds and borders. With its vibrant blooms and easy maintenance, this variety is perfect for those seeking ground cover seeds to establish a colorful, low-water solution for covering soil.

Self-Seeding

Rosie O'Day alyssum is a self-seeding flower that renews its blooms each season with minimal care. After flowering, the seeds disperse naturally, ensuring a lasting floral display. This low-maintenance ground cover is a reliable, effortless choice for garden enthusiasts.

Drought-Resistant

Thriving even in dry conditions, Rosie O'Day alyssum is drought-resistant and requires little water to maintain its vibrant blooms. This resilient ground cover offers beautiful color even in challenging soils, ideal for gardeners seeking a low-water landscape solution.

Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima Rosie O'Day) - Nothing is sweeter growing in the xeriscape garden than Alyssum, and these flower seeds make it so easy to have lots of it! Alyssum Rosie O'Day is marked by clumps of foliage covered with numerous rich, rosy-pink, fragrant flowers, that bloom from spring through mid-autumn. Lobularia Maritima Rosie O'Day grows to approximately 6 inches tall. Even though this flowering plant is just an annual, it is a prolific re-seeder. It will drop its alyssum flower seeds at the end of the blooming season and those flower seeds often germinate the following spring.

Lobularia Maritima is an excellent choice for borders and containers. It also looks good in rock gardens and spilling over rock walls. Alyssum plants prefer well-drained soil so start the flower seeds in the right location. Soggy soil is a sure way to rot the tender roots of this drought resistant plant. Alyssum care includes lightly trimming the plants back to keep flowers blooming and to prevent the plants from being leggy. 1961 AAS Flower Winner.

Alyssum (Lobularia Maritima Paletta Mix) - These Alyssum drought tolerant plants are clump forming and the foliage is covered with masses of fragrant flowers. Paletta Mix can be established readily from Alyssum flower seeds, and it will bloom from spring through early fall. Lobularia Maritima grows to 4 inches in height. With its lovely honey fragrance, this delicate, re-seeding annual is an excellent choice for borders, containers, and xeriscaping.

Alyssum seeds can be started directly outside in prepared seedbeds. Alyssum is great in rock gardens and between flagstones where the flower seeds can be sown directly in crevices. Alyssum Paletta Mix is the perfect choice for a low-growing, attractive ground cover. Growing Alysum in well-draining soil is important as soggy soil is a sure way to rot the roots and plants are resistant to drought and do not need a lot of water. Alyssum plants can be rejuvenated by cutting them back, and within 4 weeks the plants should be bushy and blooming again.