Alyssum, Sweet

This classic white variety blooms like crazy from spring through fall, blanketing itself in tiny, honey-scented flowers that'll have bees buzzing around your garden all season. It self-seeds happily year after year, so plant it once and enjoy this fragrant cottage garden favorite for years to come.

Alyssum: Sweet Alyssum is the essential low-growing annual for every garden, offering continuous clouds of delicate, honey-scented blooms from spring through fall frost. Perfect as a fragrant groundcover or border edging, this cold-hardy plant attracts vital pollinators and beneficial insects, while its edible flowers add a sweet garnish to salads and desserts. Alyssum readily self-seeds, ensuring prolific, continuous blooms that enhance vegetable beds and fill gaps beautifully.

• Growing Tips: Transplant 6-8 inches apart after the last frost into well-draining soil. Pinch back any leggy growth to encourage a compact, bushy habit.

• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade (a minimum of 4-6 hours of direct light), benefiting from afternoon shade in extremely hot climates to extend the bloom season.

• Preferred Soil: Average, well-drained soil. This variety is highly tolerant of poor, lean, or sandy conditions; excessive fertility may reduce flowering.

• Harvest Details: Flowers continuously from spring to hard frost. Deadhead spent blooms to encourage maximum flowering, or allow some plants to go to seed for prolific self-sowing the following year.