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CandytuftFrom LoveToKnow Garden Candytuft (Iberis) - Valuable hardy perennials and annuals, the perennials somewhat shrubby and evergreen, and precious as rock garden, border, and margining plants:- ...
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candytuft, Plants Related Category: Plants candytuft, any plant of the genus Iberis of the family Cruciferae ( mustard family), low-growing plants of the Old World.
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Candytuft are very easy to grow. They prefer full to partial sun and a well drained soil. They will do well in average or poor soils, and tolerate dry soil conditions. They are perfect for rock gardens.
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Comments: Candytuft does not tolerate heat and prefers sun or partial shade and a moist, well-drained soil. Shearing the plant to remove old flowers will help encourage further bloom. Flowering may decline during hot, summer weather.
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Candytuft is not named for candy, but for Candia, i.e, Crete, one of the southern European locales where Iberis sempervirens is a common wildflower.
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Candytuft [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 259, Hits: 691] Candytuft, Iberis, is any of several small perennial and annual herbs, native to Europe, that belong to the mustard family, Cruciferae Updated On: 9/20/2007 Print : Read On...
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Candytuft
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About 30 species of low growing annuals, perennials, and subshrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, linear or obovate.
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Comments Cut candytuft back severely at least every other year to insure that it does not become tall and leggy. Candytuft is actually a woody plant, but is often treated as a herbaceous perennial. Iberis sempervirens, Candytuft ...
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Description: Candytuft has an abundance of early Spring blooming white-flowers above a mound of linear, evergreen foliage.
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Similar to sweet alyssum in colouring and flower shape, but twice as tall (25 cm), annual candytuft (Iberis spp.) is also quick to grow from seed; look for 'Fairyland' and 'Flash' in mixed colours, amiable fillers that thrive in lean soil in the sun.
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Iberis Umbellata
Annual Candytuft
Native: Yes
Annual
Habitat: Full sun; prefers light, well-drained soil. Surface sow or to no more than 1/8" deep. Cut back stalks after flowering. Attracts Butterflies or Hummingbirds.
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He likes the candytuft, I like the Iberis. Aster, chrysanthemum, delphinium, penstemon, phlox -- plants whose botanical names are also their common ones -- saved us. They are the names that we both know, the names we share.
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Some of the plants found here are candytuft, garden verbena, heliotrope, re-blooming iris, marigold, Mexican evening primrose, nasturtium, ornamental flowering tobacco, petunia, red valerian, snow-in-summer, sweet alyssum, and wallflower.
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White Stonecrop, White Water- lily, White Willow, White Wood- rush, Whitebeam, Whorl Grass, Whorled Caraway, Whorled Solomon's Seal, Whorled Water Milfoil, Whortle-leaved Willow, Wild Asparagus, Wild Azalea, Wild Basil, Wild Cabbage, Wild Candytuft, ...
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 See also: Green, Evergreen, Pink, May, Rose
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