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Alyssum Royal Carpet

Description

Alyssum is botanically now called Lobularia, but despite this name change it is still one of the most popular edging plants available. With its low growing, spreading habit it mingles so well with other flowers and is easy and quick to grow.

Royal Carpet produces stunning violet-purple flowers and makes the perfect plant for seeding between paving stones to soften edges. It is a very short plant and only grows to a height of 7-8cm.

Hardy Annual flowers

Product Part Number: 51305

Pack Size: 650 Seeds

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Price : £2.00

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When to sow
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When to Sow Royal Carpet Alyssum Seeds

February to May

Where to Sow

Early sowings in trays under glass at 12°C. Later sowings in a seed bed in shallow rows or direct into the flowering site.

What to do Next

When seedlings are about 2cm tall, prick off into trays 5cm apart or thin outside sowings to the same spacings. About 3 weeks later, plant out in flowering site or thin again to 30cm apart.

Flowers

June onwards

Handy Tip

When planted at the edge of containers the spreading habit makes the plants trail down the side of the containers.

FLOWER SEED SOWING TECHNIQUE

HARDY ANNUAL

Prepare the soil in the flowering site well in advance, ensuring that all weeds are removed. Choose a time for sowing when the soil does not stick to your shoes but is moist below the surface and fairly dry on top. The soil should be crumbly and even. Rake the surface after a light treading.

Either mark small rows for sowing or mark an area for scattering seed to rake in afterwards. Hardy Annuals should be sown to a depth of about twice the size of the seed. If the ground is dry, water the rows before sowing, not after.

Sow the seed carefully and thinly, aiming to get a seed ever 2cm (3/4") and then gently rake the soil to cover and firm with the back of the rake. Water gently if the weather is dry for a period, but do not water too often as this will encourage the roots to form just below the surface and you will be watering all summer long to save your plants! Aim to encourage the roots to go further to seek water and you will have a more relaxed summer and a finer show of flowers in the long run.

When the seedlings have formed their first pair of true leaves, they should be thinned out and you can, by careful lifting of the excess plants, transplant them to other flowering sites.

Thin September sown seeds in about October or early November before they cease growth for the winter.

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