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ALYSSUM
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White flowers should always be welcomed into the garden.
Complementing all the other colours in the spectrum, they have the
added bonus of showing
up at night, especially in moonlight, and lighting
dull, shady areas by day.
One of the sweetest, prettiest and most biddable
of these is alyssum.
The most readily available of the species is sweet alyssum,
Lobularia maritima, from the Canary Islands. A short-lived perennial,
it is often treated as an annual. Indeed, it self-seeds so readily
that it might as well be one. Its masses of tiny four-petalled white
flowers exude clouds of sweet honey ...
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