How to Use alyssum in a Sentence

alyssum

noun

• Marigolds, alyssum, and herbs like basil, and oregano can work in small spaces.
  — Beth Engeleman, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• One evening the Crums came to the bar, bearing a bouquet of rosemary, thyme and alyssum.
  — Anne Brockhoff, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• For fragrance in your bouquets, plant stocks, alyssum and sweet peas.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
• The foliage looks good on all but the calendulas and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2018
• Sweet alyssum has delicate, sweetly scented blooms and flowers from spring to frost.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 May 2022
• For color in the sun, plant pansies, calendula, stocks, dianthus and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Stocks, petunias, dianthus and alyssum are following their lead.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Bees, for example, may forage alyssum and dianthus on mild winter days.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 June 2017
• The favorite cool-weather nectar sources seem to be dianthus, stock, alyssum, sweet pea and calendula.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Snapdragon, alyssum, calendulas, stock, petunias and roses out in the open all had their blooms frozen.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2018
• Pollinators and other good garden bugs are drawn to alyssum.
  — Jeanne Ambrose, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sweet alyssum looks amazing tumbling out of baskets and window boxes or cascading over a wall.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 May 2022
• For late fall and into the winter add coneflower, mint marigold, fall aster, calendula, dianthus and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
• Their favorites include wild milkweed, alyssum, buckwheat, sunflowers and two herbs, dill and cilantro, which should be allowed to flower.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• Among the best nectar plants are mistflower, zinnias, tropical milkweed, blue curl, lantana, salvia, fall aster, mint marigold and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2021
• Especially fine seeds, such as alyssum and poppies, are simply sprinkled onto the prepared soil, pressed down and watered in.
  — NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Cool-season flowers come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the ground-hugging alyssum and lobelia to the towering hollyhocks and delphiniums.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• As a replacement for the zinnias, expect the snapdragons, stocks, alyssum, pansies, petunias and other cool-weather annuals to fill in the now-available space.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2022
• To replace them as a source of nectar for winter flying butterflies, plant dianthus, stock, calendula and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Among the top-selling plants at the country’s big box stores last year are flowers Vick sold in the 1850s, including pansies, petunias, marigolds, alyssum, impatiens, geraniums, chrysanthemum, and dahlia.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• So did the vincas, snapdragons, kangaroo paws, salvia, sweet alyssum, begonias, primroses and false heather.
  — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
• Planting and propagation Plant gladioli, hardy transplants of alyssum, phlox and marigolds, if weather and soil conditions permit.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
• In addition to pansies, snapdragons, stocks and alyssum among the cool-weather annuals now blooming, cemetery iris and paperwhites are blooming, too.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Now that the warm-weather annuals such as zinnias have frozen back, replace them with cool-weather blooming plants such as stocks, dianthus, snapdragons, calendulas ornamental kale or alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Another group of the cool-weather annuals — pansies, alyssum, cyclamen, primula and ornamental kale — usually blooms through the cold spell.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Others that grow and flower well with the mild-to-cool temperatures include geraniums, petunias, calendula, ornamental cabbage and kale, lobelia and alyssum.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• Planting and propagation Plant insectary plants such as alyssum, phacelia, coriander, candytuft, sunflower, yarrow and dill to attract beneficial insects to the garden.
  — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2021
• Other good selections would include alyssum, dianthus, pansies snapdragons and violas which are all cold resistant.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• Cool weather annual flowers such as snapdragons, stocks, dianthus, alyssum and calendula can be planted as transplants in September.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Continue use of pheromone traps for insect pest detection. Learn to identify beneficial insects and plant some insectary plants — such as alyssum, Phacelia, coriander, candytuft, sunflower, yarrow and dill — to attract them to your garden.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2021

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024