I usually buy sweet alyssum in six-packs from a big box store. I love it’s thick honey-scent on a warm spring day and the flowers last usually until mid-May or until Austin’s high temperatures are in the mid 90s. This year I decided to see if I could grow it from seed and it was […]

January 6th, 2009
Labularia maritima procumbens ‘Tiny Tim’

I usually buy sweet alyssum in six-packs from a big box store. I love it’s thick honey-scent on a warm spring day and the flowers last usually until mid-May or until Austin’s high temperatures are in the mid 90s.

This year I decided to see if I could grow it from seed and it was ridiculously easy.

Botanical Interests ($1.69 250mg). Alyssum, sweet ‘Tiny Tim’. Packet blurb, “Much superior to ‘Carpet of Snow’—dense, compact dwarf plant never needs to be sheared. Fragrant white flowers all summer!”

Garden History

2008-10-12.
Plant two rows (the whole packet) of sweet alyssum ‘Tiny Tim’ in raised vegetable garden.

2008-12-19.
First flower. And I haven’t even gotten around to transplanting them yet!