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, depending on variety

Plant Width:

1-4 feet wide, depending on variety

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 2- to 3-inch-long leaves are blue green. 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 tumbling over rocks and walls in Zones 4-7. The pink or white flowers are abundant for many weeks in summer.
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