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Nothing could be easier and more rewarding for the sunny garden than this hardy, long-lived, super colorful Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum. The yellow blooms just seem to radiate sunny warmth, entirely obscuring the foliage as they spread in beds and borders, tumble over walls, and trail from the sides of sun-soaked hanging baskets and window boxes.
The flowers are tiny and densely-set right down to the ground, on plants that reach just 6 inches high (1 foot in bloom) tall but spread freely up to 18 inches within a single season.
Alyssum (also called Basket of Gold and Dwarf Goldentuft) is among the most popular choice for rock gardens, groundcover, and edging, and it's easy to see why. Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum is not fussy about soil (it may even flower more generously in poor soils), asking only full sun to bloom all spring long on vigorous plants.
A bit of drought and a lot of sun won't bother Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum. The foliage is grayish-green, and it even blooms the first year from seed. Irresistible to butterflies and honeybees, Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum is a gardener's helper as well as a gorgeous source of spring radiance.
Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum needs very little maintenance to keep blooming and spreading its best for years. Shear Basket of Gold Compacta Alyssum back after flowering for a neater look (you may get a second flush of blooms in late summer or early fall), and enjoy the muted colors of the dense foliage through summer and fall.
It's going to be another beautiful spring in your garden! We are delighted to celebrate 150 years of gardening friendship with you! "Your success and pleasure are more to Park than your money." The motto of our founder, George W. Park, has been the inspiration for Park Seed Company ever since its 1868 founding at the kitchen table of a 15-year-old boy who hoped to sell seeds from his own garden for a little pocket money. Mr. Park considered gardening a spiritual delight as well as a useful and pleasant activity. In early catalogs, he encouraged gardeners to form clubs and swap seeds, even printing nature poetry they had written. His catalogs united gardeners in remote rural areas, and by 1918, Park Seed Company had 180,000 customers. Today our gardeners number in the millions, yet we still adhere to Mr. Park's original motto. We may be connecting online through social media rather than handwritten letters, but the spirit and the result is the same: bringing the joys of gardening to as many people as possible.