Alyssum Seeds for Planting - Sweet Royal Carpet Purple Alyssum - Fragrant Perennial Flower & Ground Cover - Heirloom Non-GMO - Survival Garden Seeds (1 Pack)

Beautiful flowers. They grew quickly. Planted seeds outdoors at the end of summer. (8/25) I live in a 9 zone. They come in white and then turn purple. These pictured get full sun all day. I have some in my back yard that I planted the same time. They get morning sun only. They have a few flowers starting to bloom now but have grown very tall and green. The bees move them too.

I have to say how impressed I am with these. I want to trade mulch for ground cover around my gigantic maple tree. I bought 11 ground over plants at $6 a piece and it doesn’t even come close to being enough. I decided to sow some seeds instead of spending about $70. This is day TWO. They are already sprouting! I followed the instructions exactly. Spray bottle watering everyday and put them in front of a window as they do need light to germinate. They are shade friendly but I knew my tree wouldn’t give them enough sunlight to germinate. Once the sprouts are a bit bigger I will transfer. I can’t believe how quickly they grew for $5!

Germinated, and then never grew. The seedlings were about 1/8 tall, had great roots but never grew. In a plantar with Zinnia, cosmo brights which are thriving, but didn’t get to see any of these cute little purple flowers.

Rec'd and planted indoors (under lights) and outdoors (covered w/ shaded clear dome hood) on 6/25/25. As of 7/3 (8 days later) every cell, with the exception of one cell, has 3-9 seedlings (see foto). Future updates will follow. Very high germination rate.

I was afraid the flowers wouldn't be purpley enough, but they were. The way the envelope looks (being so purple itself) makes you feel like it will be deeper in color. It isn't that deep of a purple but it is definitely purple.

Update one month later - they are starting to look more beautiful now. Will update a picture soon! Original review - Had high hopes for these but maybe we got a bad batch. They look dead and ugly! Have had water and sun.

I am a beginner to say the least. At 51 years old I figured now that I'm not seeing my mom break jer back for gardens I didn't know I cared about as I was running my pet grooming biz, I figured I am ready to be that old crazy lady with her hmmmm gardener's crack tan from the sun and full on unnoticed frontal slipsfrom not wearing proper attire. Being the first year ever, I tossed out the ugly rocks from the 18" perimeter of hair over clay come to learn. The hair, it's a lot and finally saw it turns into a tightly wovento looser and looser hairy fibers that I thought were how they brought fhe rocks in or something. With as much onion grass that grows in massive circulatory systems of roots that all stay, connect and grow like....weeds every year, it couldnt have been week barrier sheets but, I was wrong...beginner remember? But come on, did hair start coming out of your rocky area? That's what I thought. It's impossible and goes on forever and when I finally got the rocks and the hair out I was left with very sticky, very unalive, hard packed clay. (Colorado um zone? Twilight. Hairy gardensand onion grass and portulaca? Yeah weirdness) My mom's friend ga e me a townhouse-warming gift of some rad snap dragons that grew this deep red wine purple color and they came back year after year with new colors. Then they were slacking and onions were taking over so, time to learn a new skill. I bought $250 of seeds (yeah, I guess I could plant a few footbal fields with that much so I learned. Two bags of what turned out to be the best soil ever which was nowhere near enough but it fillen my 4 pots. The surrounding bed had to wait. I had a big thing of wildlife vutterfly, hummingbird, bee packet mix and planted and planted.and got more and more sojl. Took a total of 8 bags....40lb? I finally was able to plant the perimeter bed. It went NUTS. You'd think I was a serious pro! However, I was expecting little purple and white balls of blooms along the ground. I had two plants and they were ok but wicked small and that's all. Sorry to disappoint after such a long read....but that's kind of how I felt too. It's September. I'm not golding my breath. It was a itty bitty packet that sowed rolling hills of solid purple. Sorry but that's not qhat my allysum looka like at all. That's how things go I guess. Oh well. Vetter luck next year? Do they get better with age being a perennial? Idk. Not going to buy em again. Not next year anyway.

Grew well.