hello! Please can any of you clever folk identify this little gem for me? Tiny white flowers in clusters and long pointy leaves. In flower, still! It has a tag, that says 'cutting from mums garden'!
Thanks ever so much Fairygirl. Will it come again next year do you know? Is is something I can take a cutting from now? Would love more of it. So pretty.
It's perennial and evergreen I think - I used to have some in a previous garden. I'm sure you could do cuttings but not sure if now would be the right time. Probably after flowering in late spring /summer would be best, but I expect there's no harm in trying!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry, am a bit confused. Is alyssum a different name for Iberis? Because if it is alyssum, I thought it was an annual. So if you want more, you would have to save seeds if you wanted more next year. Didn't think you would be able to do cuttings of it?
It is Alyssum, looks very similar to candytuft (Iberis). It is an annual but very easy from seed, or you may find some self-seeded if the ground is not disturbed too much.
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Candytuft Tootles - Iberis to give it it's posh name. Very useful little groundcover plant
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks ever so much Fairygirl. Will it come again next year do you know? Is is something I can take a cutting from now? Would love more of it. So pretty.
It's perennial and evergreen I think - I used to have some in a previous garden. I'm sure you could do cuttings but not sure if now would be the right time. Probably after flowering in late spring /summer would be best, but I expect there's no harm in trying!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Poop I knew that one ! But not quick enough
Iberis sempervirens.
I've found it easy to just tease up a root or two, I've done it in spring but I'd have a go now and stick some in a pot.
Isn't it alyssum?
Yes PP
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sorry, am a bit confused. Is alyssum a different name for Iberis? Because if it is alyssum, I thought it was an annual. So if you want more, you would have to save seeds if you wanted more next year. Didn't think you would be able to do cuttings of it?
I think you're right PP, it's alyssum, an annual, clusters of 4 petalled flowers.
Iberis sempervirens has it's flowers arranged in circles so tight you can barely count the petals or see gaps between them
In the sticks near Peterborough
It is Alyssum, looks very similar to candytuft (Iberis). It is an annual but very easy from seed, or you may find some self-seeded if the ground is not disturbed too much.
I'd say Alyssum
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.