{"id":4387,"date":"2009-08-02T05:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2009-08-02T05:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T12:54:05","slug":"annual-alyssum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/annual-alyssum\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Alyssum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3478\/3745375215_1d96e2e622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweet Alyssum<\/strong> is one of the best smelling annuals you can grow. The flowers have a marvelous honey scent all summer and these\u00c2\u00a0 Alyssum &#8216;Royal Carpet&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 are a different purple to the shades you normally see.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carpet of Snow is the best selling seed variety that flowers traditional white. The seedlings clump up into a nice mound and the plants make good edging for borders. A must for Cottage gardens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Allyssum is often paired with Lobelia for the contrast of blue and white flowers growing in unrestrained 3-4 inch tall plants. They can also be planted in pots to accompany a centre piece plant such as a bush fuchsia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed colours of pink, Lilac, rose, violet and even yellow now supplement the traditional white varieties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Plants will self seed but I buy new seed each spring and the plants grow away in most soil conditions without much interferance from me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Alyssum is one of the best smelling annuals you can grow. The flowers have a marvelous honey scent all summer and these\u00c2\u00a0 Alyssum &#8216;Royal Carpet&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 are a different purple to the shades you normally see. Carpet of Snow is the best selling seed variety that flowers traditional white. The seedlings clump up into a nice mound and the plants make good edging for borders. A must for Cottage gardens. Allyssum is often paired with Lobelia for the contrast of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/annual-alyssum\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}