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Sweet Alyssum Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A low honey-scented annual that carpets the ground with tiny flowers, often used to edge beds and fill container gaps.

Sweet Alyssum

Lobularia maritima

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantFlowering

Guides

Pests and diseases (2)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Downy Mildew

Disease

Pale yellow to yellow-brown angular lesions form on the upper leaf surface with a gray-purple mold in the matching spot underneath. Lesions merge, the leaves die back and the plant declines early.

Leaf Rot

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