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Enjoy the beautiful, fragrant flowers of the sweet alyssum plant in your garden.

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Alyssum

Alyssum

gardens, hanging baskets, and window boxes. In warm climates, they will often bloom all year. If flowering decreased toward the end of the summer, trim plants back to encourage new growth. Alyssum is native to the Mediterranean area.

Annuals in Strawberry Jars

Annuals in Strawberry Jars

as the New Guinea impatiens, sweet alyssum , zinnias, and wax begonias flowering favorites as candytuft, sweet alyssum , or begonias into the pockets choose a fragrant annual, such as sweet alyssum to add to your enjoyment.

How to Plan a Border

How to Plan a Border

annuals that can be added to enhance a border display. Sweet alyssum and lobelias make fine front edgings, while petunias finish off the design, run a row of wax begonias or sweet alyssum across the front edge of the border.

Annuals in the Landscape

Annuals in the Landscape

garden. Cosmos and spider flower, with an edging of sweet alyssum , would also look lovely. If you'd like a more formal daisies, portulaca, and California poppies. Sweet alyssum , zinnia, and vinca also do well in dry soil. Adding

October Tips: The Desert Southwest

October Tips: The Desert Southwest

cool-season flowers, such as pansies, calendula, candytuft, foxgloves, snapdragons, sweet peas, stock, and sweet alyssum . Also plant cool-season veggies and herbs, such as broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cilantro, dill, fennel

November Tips: The South

November Tips: The South

plant cool-season annual flowers, as such as pansies, calendula, candytuft, foxgloves, snapdragons, stock, and sweet alyssum . Dividing Perennials -- Divide perennials as needed, especially spring-blooming perennials that you shouldn

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Recipes for Beautiful Container Gardens

Recipes for Beautiful Container Gardens

will delight with its scent and its contrast to fragrant sweet alyssum . A. Scented geranium ( Pelargonium graveolens 'Grey Lady Plymouth') -- 1 B. Sweet alyssum ( Lobularia 'Wonderland Purple') -- 3 This little

Top Annual Plant Pairings

Top Annual Plant Pairings

Talent Yellow' gazania, Dahlberg daisy, and white sweet alyssum . Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil lobelia, 'Yellow Frost' viola, and white sweet alyssum ? These beauties are the perfect way to start the gardening

Fragrant Plant Favorites

Fragrant Plant Favorites

fragrant flowers in white, rose, lavender, or purple, sweet alyssum is an easy-to-grow, low-maintenance cool-season growing more than 6 inches tall and 1 foot wide, sweet alyssum is a good addition to edgings, beds, rock gardens

Cool-Season Containers

Cool-Season Containers

Here, a basket is filled with favorites including purple coralbells and yellow osteospermum and snapdragon. A mix of sweet alyssum and creeping Jenny cascades down the sides. As they get going, they'll eventually cover up the moss. Hint: Other

Easy, Beautiful Window Boxes for Sun

Easy, Beautiful Window Boxes for Sun

and enjoy some fresh air. Tip: Other plants that offer great scents include heliotrope, lavender, rosemary, and sweet alyssum . A. Wax begonia ( Begonia 'Bada Boom Pink') -- 2 B. Verbena 'Tapien Plum Frost' -- 2 C. Ivy ( Hedera helix

Front Yard Flower Power

Front Yard Flower Power

and-crafts home with a rugged walkway of pavers broken up by pockets of low-growing ground cover, such as this sweet alyssum . Lush plantings on both sides of the path help prevent this small-space front yard from feeling too tiny. Dress

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