Alyssum

Grows Best in: sun to part sun

Description:

The most versatile edging plant—easy, fast, dainty and dense. Flowers continuously with a delicious fragrance.

Sweet alyssum flowers do come in other colors (there is a purple alyssum, for instance), but white alyssum is the most widely planted. The flowers have 4 small, blunt petals set in such a way as to give the blossom almost a squarish appearance. Sweet alyssum plants are short and spread to form mats. The plants' narrow leaves hardly show at all when sweet alyssum is in full bloom, if the plants are packed tightly together.