Clear Crystal White Sweet Alyssum Seeds

Plug crop time: 4 weeks
Transplant to finish: 4 to 6 weeks

Such an improvement over all other sweet alyssum varieties when it arrived on the scene in 1988, the Crystal series continues to delight with Clear Crystal White Sweet Alyssum. Until the Crystals, sweet alyssum was a rather delicate annual, nicely fragrant and everything but short-blooming and subject to fall apart a bit when faced with rough wind or high heat. You grew it in a container with the full expectation that it would bloom for a few weeks and then you’d replace it, around about July, with something tougher for the high heat and humidity of the dog days.

Then the Crystals changed everything. They were the first tetraploid Sweet Alyssum, which means that they have twice the chromosomes of older (diploid) varieties. Twice the chromosomes means lots more vigor, as well as specific improvements such as much greater heat and wind tolerance, larger flower si