Aurinia saxatilis (Alyssum saxatile)

Aurinia saxatilis (Alyssum saxatile)
gold dust, basket-of-gold

SIZE/TYPE	low or groundcovering
USUAL HEIGHT	0.2-0.2m
USUAL WIDTH	0.3-0.5m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	+multicoloured:green and blue-green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	yellow
BLOOMING TIME	May - June
LOCATION	full sun
USDA zone (lowest)	4 (down to -34°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Perennials

Gold dust is a low growing, mat forming perennial not just for rockeries or dry walls. It produces masses of panicles with rich yellow flowers on thin but sturdy, 20-25 cm tall stems. Flowers come out from mid spring, usually early May and continue flowering for 3-4 weeks. Leaves are narrowly elliptic and hairy, medium green with a hint of blue-green.

It is not picky about soil type. Grow it in free draining soil or pot with gritty soil. It is a beautiful edging plant for perennial beds – after the flowering has finished it makes a nice groundcover that benefits from light pruning with a small dose of a liquid fertilizer after flowering. Hardy to about -34°C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 28-04-2014

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view item	form	pot	size	quality	price (incl. VAT)	where in stock	sending options	quantity
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STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
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GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.