Sweet
alyssum is past its best now but a few flowers cling on in the front of sheltered borders emitting a hint of their earlier fragrance on sunny days.
* For a border accent that looks like blue-and-white boiling sea-foam, combine 'New Blue Wonder' scaevola, 'Carpet Mix' vinca, and 'Snow Cloth'
alyssum.
Great combined with blue lobelia or purple
alyssum. - J.W.
The benefits of planting to attract beneficials have not been widely evaluated, but one recent study by a University of California researcher proved that planting rows of white sweet
alyssum between rows of lettuce actually increased the number of beneficial insects that visited the plantings.
TUCK A FEW CABBAGE plants among a sea of purple sweet
alyssum and voila!
For added impact, Schlegel intersperses Antique Shades pansies with catmint (pansies "look outstanding planted under apricot roses") and interplants freesias through Santa Barbara daisy and sweet
alyssum; the thick ground covers help keep the freesias from falling over in rain and wind.
The white flowering annual,
alyssum (Lobularia), makes a low growing plant and when planted between lettuce and other salad crops, the white flowers attract hoverflies that feed on aphids.
If you like color and can embrace a little chaos, sow reseeding flowers, including blue honeywort, forget-me-not, golden feverfew, love-in-a-mist, sunflower, and sweet
alyssum. These unfussy, drought-tolerant annuals will cheerily pop up for years to come.
Dubai: Kitsch,
alyssum, and grotesqueness were just some of the big words 12-year-old Joel Jobi had to spell to clinch the top prize of The Spelling Bee Championship UAE 2018-19.
If
alyssum charmed the edges of your containers with their sweet-smelling flowers in summer, they will love the cooler temperatures September and October bring.
Private jet charter marketplace leader Victor has announced an USD 18m co-investment from BBA Aviation, BP Ventures and existing shareholders to help form the newly created
Alyssum Group, the company said.
Q In a previous column you showed some yellow
alyssum.
In your column you showed some yellow
alyssum (Mirror, July 29).
Or include calendula, statice,
alyssum and cosmos in your flower beds.
