Alyssum Flower Container. 02032021 Sweet alyssum is a colorful carpet of tiny flowers that can be used to blanket your garden or landscape. Alyssum is perfect for window boxes pots and hanging baskets but these container plantings dry out quickly especially if they are in exposed situations where they are subjected to drying winds.
21102020 If you have your alyssum flowers growing in a hanging basket or a container some shade on particularly hot days may actually help the plant. One of the most enduring garden annuals is sweet alyssum. 15042021 Sweet alyssum is the perfect flower for edges of beds and containers.
20022011 Sweet Alyssum and other Companions.
Buy alyssum seeds from Swallowtail Garden Seeds. This low-growing plant native to the Mediterranean makes a good ground cover and the sweetly fragrant flowers are attractive to many beneficial insects. Alyssum is an easy-to-grow heat tolerant spreading annual flower. Alyssum can be planted nearly anywhere but make great border flowers thrive in rock beds and in containers where they can trail over the sides.