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Sweet alyssum, is one of those wonderful low growing, multi-purpose, flowering plants that blooms prolifically in frigid temperatures and plenty of sun. Although its hardy in USDA growing zones 5 to 9 it’s not always perennial. This is an undemanding plant that performs best and can be grown almost anywhere as an annual.
Sweet alyssum works beautifully as both a ‘filler’ and ‘spiller’ in containers and hanging baskets. Its size (4- to 6-inches high) and clusters of miniature, scented flowers, make it a perfect choice for front of the flowerbed, borders and rock gardens. It can work as a ground cover or living mulch.
Garden plants grown as annuals don’t require winter care, but there are ways to keep your sweet alyssum coming back year after year.
Winter Care For Sweet Alyssum
In southern gardens, sweet alyssum can be grown as a short-lived perennial but is more often put to work as a winter annual, blooming from autumn through the following year up until heated summer weather causes plants to cease flowering, wilt, and lose vigor.
In climates with winter freezing, sweet alyssum can only be grown outdoors as an annual. If allowed to reseed, up-to-date plants emerge in spring and may flower continuously until killed off by freezing.
Flowering, though, is temperature dependent so expect your sweet alyssum to take a breathing spell in the hottest part of summer. A little extra care in mid to behind schedule summer can encourage a second bloom period lasting until winter weather arrives.
Temperature
Sweet alyssum blooms in a fairly narrow temperature range of 60 to 75 degrees F. How long plants remain vigorous and continue to flower depends on climate. Mature plants can survive frost but are killed off by freezing.
If you want to try to keep original plants overwinter, try adding a 2- to 3-inch layer of mulch or cover mature plants with frost blankets or plastic sheeting during periods of ponderous frost and freezing.
When summer heat exceeds 75 degrees F, sweet alyssum plants may cease blooming, begin to fade, and look straggly. While most varieties grow best with five to six hours of daily sun exposure, southern gardeners can extend flowering by planting in a location that receives afternoon shade.
Pruning
Pruning also extends the bloom period and may encourage a second bloom but timing is essential. Deadheading and thinning throughout the growing season encourages more flowers.
When higher temperatures cause plants to stop flowering and start to look wilted, straggly and less vigorous, sheer them back by one-third to encourage a second bloom in autumn. In climates with sultry winters your sweet alyssum may continue to grow and flower into spring and early summer of the following year.
You don’t need to prune plants grown as annuals. They can either be removed and added to compost at the end of the growing season or allowed to reseed for a up-to-date flush of sweet alyssum seedlings next spring.
Reseeding
To keep sweet alyssum going in gardens with winter freezing, allow flowers to go to seed when the autumn bloom period ends. They reseed easily and prolifically to give you a up-to-date crop the following spring. Seeds are delicate dependent for germination so it’s a good idea to remove spent foliage and debris in early spring to give seeds space and sunlight.
In southern gardens where sweet alyssum is grown for winter color, you may be able to keep it growing as a low lived perennial by sheering it back by about one-third in mid to behind schedule summer. However, allowing flowers to go to seed results in a up-to-date vigorous crop for the next growing season.
Watering in Winter
You only need to water sweet alyssum during winter if you’re treating it as a perennial. Water early in the day when temperatures rise above 45 degrees F. and only when the top 2- to 3-inches of soil is desiccated.
Winter Care for Sweet Alyssum in Pots
Container grown alyssum should be moved indoors before first frost if you plan to keep it overwinter. Place it in a frigid location with glowing delicate and reduce watering frequency. Continue to fertilize monthly with a water soluble product high in phosphorous such as an NPK 0-10-10.
Allow some flowers to go to seed to generate up-to-date plants for the next growing season. Move pots outdoors when danger of frost has passed.
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Sweet alyssum, is one of those wonderful low growing, multi-purpose, flowering plants that blooms prolifically in frigid temperatures and plenty of sun. Although its hardy in USDA growing zones 5 to 9 it’s not always perennial. This is an undemanding plant that performs best and can be grown almost anywhere as an annual.
Sweet alyssum works beautifully as both a ‘filler’ and ‘spiller’ in containers and hanging baskets. Its size (4- to 6-inches high) and clusters of miniature, scented flowers, make it a perfect choice for front of the flowerbed, borders and rock gardens. It can work as a ground cover or living mulch.
Garden plants grown as annuals don’t require winter care, but there are ways to keep your sweet alyssum coming back year after year.
Winter Care For Sweet Alyssum
In southern gardens, sweet alyssum can be grown as a short-lived perennial but is more often put to work as a winter annual, blooming from autumn through the following year up until heated summer weather causes plants to cease flowering, wilt, and lose vigor.
In climates with winter freezing, sweet alyssum can only be grown outdoors as an annual. If allowed to reseed, up-to-date plants emerge in spring and may flower continuously until killed off by freezing.
Flowering, though, is temperature dependent so expect your sweet alyssum to take a breathing spell in the hottest part of summer. A little extra care in mid to behind schedule summer can encourage a second bloom period lasting until winter weather arrives.
Temperature
Sweet alyssum blooms in a fairly narrow temperature range of 60 to 75 degrees F. How long plants remain vigorous and continue to flower depends on climate. Mature plants can survive frost but are killed off by freezing.
If you want to try to keep original plants overwinter, try adding a 2- to 3-inch layer of mulch or cover mature plants with frost blankets or plastic sheeting during periods of ponderous frost and freezing.
When summer heat exceeds 75 degrees F, sweet alyssum plants may cease blooming, begin to fade, and look straggly. While most varieties grow best with five to six hours of daily sun exposure, southern gardeners can extend flowering by planting in a location that receives afternoon shade.
Pruning
Pruning also extends the bloom period and may encourage a second bloom but timing is essential. Deadheading and thinning throughout the growing season encourages more flowers.
When higher temperatures cause plants to stop flowering and start to look wilted, straggly and less vigorous, sheer them back by one-third to encourage a second bloom in autumn. In climates with sultry winters your sweet alyssum may continue to grow and flower into spring and early summer of the following year.
You don’t need to prune plants grown as annuals. They can either be removed and added to compost at the end of the growing season or allowed to reseed for a up-to-date flush of sweet alyssum seedlings next spring.
Reseeding
To keep sweet alyssum going in gardens with winter freezing, allow flowers to go to seed when the autumn bloom period ends. They reseed easily and prolifically to give you a up-to-date crop the following spring. Seeds are delicate dependent for germination so it’s a good idea to remove spent foliage and debris in early spring to give seeds space and sunlight.
In southern gardens where sweet alyssum is grown for winter color, you may be able to keep it growing as a low lived perennial by sheering it back by about one-third in mid to behind schedule summer. However, allowing flowers to go to seed results in a up-to-date vigorous crop for the next growing season.
Watering in Winter
You only need to water sweet alyssum during winter if you’re treating it as a perennial. Water early in the day when temperatures rise above 45 degrees F. and only when the top 2- to 3-inches of soil is desiccated.
Winter Care for Sweet Alyssum in Pots
Container grown alyssum should be moved indoors before first frost if you plan to keep it overwinter. Place it in a frigid location with glowing delicate and reduce watering frequency. Continue to fertilize monthly with a water soluble product high in phosphorous such as an NPK 0-10-10.
Allow some flowers to go to seed to generate up-to-date plants for the next growing season. Move pots outdoors when danger of frost has passed.
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Sweet alyssum, is one of those wonderful low growing, multi-purpose, flowering plants that blooms prolifically in frigid temperatures and plenty of sun. Although its hardy in USDA growing zones 5 to 9 it’s not always perennial. This is an undemanding plant that performs best and can be grown almost anywhere as an annual.
Sweet alyssum works beautifully as both a ‘filler’ and ‘spiller’ in containers and hanging baskets. Its size (4- to 6-inches high) and clusters of miniature, scented flowers, make it a perfect choice for front of the flowerbed, borders and rock gardens. It can work as a ground cover or living mulch.
Garden plants grown as annuals don’t require winter care, but there are ways to keep your sweet alyssum coming back year after year.
Winter Care For Sweet Alyssum
In southern gardens, sweet alyssum can be grown as a short-lived perennial but is more often put to work as a winter annual, blooming from autumn through the following year up until heated summer weather causes plants to cease flowering, wilt, and lose vigor.
In climates with winter freezing, sweet alyssum can only be grown outdoors as an annual. If allowed to reseed, up-to-date plants emerge in spring and may flower continuously until killed off by freezing.
Flowering, though, is temperature dependent so expect your sweet alyssum to take a breathing spell in the hottest part of summer. A little extra care in mid to behind schedule summer can encourage a second bloom period lasting until winter weather arrives.
Temperature
Sweet alyssum blooms in a fairly narrow temperature range of 60 to 75 degrees F. How long plants remain vigorous and continue to flower depends on climate. Mature plants can survive frost but are killed off by freezing.
If you want to try to keep original plants overwinter, try adding a 2- to 3-inch layer of mulch or cover mature plants with frost blankets or plastic sheeting during periods of ponderous frost and freezing.
When summer heat exceeds 75 degrees F, sweet alyssum plants may cease blooming, begin to fade, and look straggly. While most varieties grow best with five to six hours of daily sun exposure, southern gardeners can extend flowering by planting in a location that receives afternoon shade.
Pruning
Pruning also extends the bloom period and may encourage a second bloom but timing is essential. Deadheading and thinning throughout the growing season encourages more flowers.
When higher temperatures cause plants to stop flowering and start to look wilted, straggly and less vigorous, sheer them back by one-third to encourage a second bloom in autumn. In climates with sultry winters your sweet alyssum may continue to grow and flower into spring and early summer of the following year.
You don’t need to prune plants grown as annuals. They can either be removed and added to compost at the end of the growing season or allowed to reseed for a up-to-date flush of sweet alyssum seedlings next spring.
Reseeding
To keep sweet alyssum going in gardens with winter freezing, allow flowers to go to seed when the autumn bloom period ends. They reseed easily and prolifically to give you a up-to-date crop the following spring. Seeds are delicate dependent for germination so it’s a good idea to remove spent foliage and debris in early spring to give seeds space and sunlight.
In southern gardens where sweet alyssum is grown for winter color, you may be able to keep it growing as a low lived perennial by sheering it back by about one-third in mid to behind schedule summer. However, allowing flowers to go to seed results in a up-to-date vigorous crop for the next growing season.
Watering in Winter
You only need to water sweet alyssum during winter if you’re treating it as a perennial. Water early in the day when temperatures rise above 45 degrees F. and only when the top 2- to 3-inches of soil is desiccated.
Winter Care for Sweet Alyssum in Pots
Container grown alyssum should be moved indoors before first frost if you plan to keep it overwinter. Place it in a frigid location with glowing delicate and reduce watering frequency. Continue to fertilize monthly with a water soluble product high in phosphorous such as an NPK 0-10-10.
Allow some flowers to go to seed to generate up-to-date plants for the next growing season. Move pots outdoors when danger of frost has passed.
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