Tall White Sweet Alyssum

I’ve planted this around in my vegetable garden to attract pollinators, and it has not disappointed. It came up and started blooming much faster than I anticipated. The sweet smell is a bonus. A real winner!

This is definitely not your low mounding alyssum that you purchase from the big box stores. It is mid-September and this is easily a foot tall with tons of flowers. Attracts pollinators and beneficial insects like crazy and has helped my peppers thrive. Would be very pretty trailing in a planter or on the edges of a garden. I might try interplanting with herbs or another delicate flower next year, as it is not a super-dense plant when mature...plenty of space to have something growing in between the flowers. A definite win with this one!

These were very easy to grow from seed. I didn't think they'd do well after transplanting because they didn't do much growing for a couple of weeks, and then they took off! They've created a carpet of beautiful, maintenance-free plants that look gorgeous in my vegetable garden. What started as a few small plants now look like many large plants. The beneficial insects love these plants, too. It will definitely be a staple in my garden in future years.

I planted this variety of sweet Alyssum in the crevices between my sidewalks and the cinder block wall of my home. My goal was to create beauty in a space that frequently grew weeds of all varieties. The Alyssum germinated quickly. The flowers provided months of fragrance that invited people into the garden as well as welcome people into our home! I plan to plant the entire length of our sidewalk next year!

I bought these seeds because I thought it'd be cool to have tall alyssum and short alysumm in my planter. The short alyssum I bought from the store isn't doing half as well as this gorgeous tall alyssum. It grew almost instantly, and is now at the full foot in height. It's got a lot of bounce to it, which is good because it tends to fall over since it's so tall and it forms a sort of mound. It smells delicious and seems to be deer proof. The only thing I didn't like was how most of it died off during our early hot spell. Once it got going it was almost indestructible, but it's fragile while they're still seedlings