Sweet Alyssum, Seaside Lobularia
Scientific Name: Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv.
Synonym: Alyssum maritimum, Koniga maritima, Clypeola maritima
Family: Brassicaceae ...
Sweet Alyssum, Alyssum maritima
Old-fashioned favorites, the dainty, spreading plants are covered with clusters of small, sweetly fragrant flowers. Bees love the lavender, purple, rose and white blossoms.
( Alice Sweet Alyssum )
Compact clumps of foliage covered with numerous rose, white, or lavender fragrant flowers literally covering the plant from spring through early fall. Leaves are lance shaped, 1 inch long.
Sweet Alyssum; aka,
Sweet Alice, or
Seaside Lobularia
This tiny three or four inch tall honey-scented annual erupted in disturbed soil on the roadside, from a packet of wildflower seeds broadcast early in spring.
Sweet Alyssum
(Lobularia maritima)
4 to 8 inches tall by 1 foot wide
Honey-scented flowers are white, pink, rose or purple.
Here white sweet alyssum is paired with brilliant 'Blue Wave' petunias (Petunia x hybrida) to create colorful carpets to cover the ground.
Description
This low growing woody stemmed perennial is usually grown as an annual by most gardeners.
Family:
Sweet Alyssum
Family:
Brassicaceae (also known as Cruciferae) ...
How to Grow Sweet Alyssum
A simple and easy to follow tutorial on growing sweet alyssum like a pro.
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Lobularia Maritima
Sweet Alyssum
Details: Full sun to light shade, soil rich in lime. Very drought tolerant. Surface sow to no more than 1/8" deep in spring after danger of frost is past. Attracts Butterflies or Hummingbirds.
Sweet Alyssum
Sweet Alyssum Lobularia maritima
Sweet Box (Sarcococca)
Sweet Box, Fragrant Sarcococca Sarcococca confusa
Himalayan Sarcococca hookeriana
Himalayan Sweet Box, Himalayan Sarcococca Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis ...
Annuals that provide a cascading effect include lobelia and sweet alyssum. Perennials such as verbena, salvia, rudbeckia and coreopsis all work very well in pots.
Sweet Alyssum (Cruciferae lobelaria) Just your standard groundcover Alyssum (white, purple)
Burning Bush (Dictamnus albus) 2-3 foot shrub (white, pink, purple)
Grape Hyacinth (Lilaceae muscari) Long lived bulb (purple) ...
Aster
Borage
Calendula
Delphinium
Sweet Alyssum
You can also suspend a small dish from a tree and fill it with cut fruit. Ripe oranges, grapefruit, peaches or strawberries all have a lot of the juice that butterflies love.
A tuft of Sweet Alyssum or a Broad Bean seedling acts excellently. It is not long before the litmus solution surrounding the root changes colour.
The annual sweet alyssum (called A. maritima but separated by most botanists as Lobularia maritima) is a similar plant with fragrant white or lilac blossoms.
Purple-white 'Shirley' tulip with white-purple-yellow 'Johnny Jump Up' violas Red, white, yellow or purple Rembrandt tulip with white sweet alyssum 'Apricot Beauty' tulip with blue forget-me-not (Myosotis)
Tulips with Perennial Flowers ...
The genera Lobularia and Aurinia are closely related to Alyssum and were formerly included in it. The widely cultivated species popularly known as "Sweet Alyssum" is Lobularia maritima. The common rockery plant is Aurinia saxatilis.
Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
Sweet bay, bay (Laurus nobilis)
Sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
Sweet clover (Melilotus species)
Sweet elder, European elder (Sambucus canadensis, Sambucus nigra, Sambucus racemosa) ...
 See also: Alyssum, Lobularia maritima, Pink, May, Lavender
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