Baby's breath

With its loose, billowy panicles of tiny single or double pink or white flowers, baby's breath provides a lightness and airiness to flower gardens. The creeping forms drape beautifully over rock walls. After bloom time, shear the plants to deadhead and for neatness. Plants prefer sweet (alkaline) soils with full sun and excellent drainage.

Light:

Sun

Zones:

4-9

Plant Type:

Perennial

Plant Height:

8 inches to 4 feet tall

Plant Width:

1-4 feet wide

Landscape Uses:

Beds & Borders,Groundcover

Special Features:

Flowers,Attractive Foliage,Cut Flowers,Dried Flowers,Drought Tolerant,Deer Resistant,Easy to Grow

Top Varieties

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Baby's breath

Gypsophila paniculata produces clouds of small single or double white or pink flowers on branching stems. Its blue-green leaves are 2-3 inches long. Superior cultivars are often grafted. Zones 5-9
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Creeping baby's breath

Gypsophila repens seldom grows more than a few inches high and is ideal as a groundcover or for tumbling over rocks and walls. The pink or white flowers are abundant for many weeks in summer. Zones 4-7
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Garden Plans

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Corner of Grasses
Mailbox Garden
Season-Long Garden Plan

Plant It With

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Poppy

The spectacular bright Oriental poppy flowers bloom ahead of baby's breath, but then the poppies go summer dormant. Baby's breath grows up and fills the space left by the poppies.

Daylily

Baby's breath adds contrasting grace and charm to the strappy foliage and colorful trumpet flowers of daylilies in the flower garden.

Dianthus

The low-growing, blue-green mounds of 'Bath's Pink' dianthus topped with single fragrant pink flowers combine charmingly with creeping baby's breath. Both prefer sweet, well-drained soil.

Propagation

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Seed
Division
Stem Cuttings