Description
Annual Candytuft is a charming, easy-to-grow flower that brings bright color and classic cottage garden appeal to any landscape. This compact annual forms neat mounds of glossy green foliage topped with dense clusters of delicate white, pink, violet, and purple blooms. Flowering in as little as 55 days from seed, it provides an early-season display that attracts bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators.
Growing 12 to 20 inches tall, annual candytuft thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, including poor, sandy, rocky, or alkaline soils where many other flowers struggle. It is heat- and drought-tolerant once established and performs best with moderate watering, as overly wet soils can reduce plant vigor.
A delightful addition to butterfly gardens, its nectar-rich blooms invite butterflies to linger while creating a lively, colorful display throughout the summer. Its compact size and soft, cloud-like flowers also make it a favorite for fairy gardens, where it adds the perfect touch of storybook charm along miniature paths and around tiny fairy homes.
This versatile flower is perfect for borders, walkways, containers, rock gardens, cottage gardens, pollinator plantings, and sunny slopes. Its long-lasting blooms also make attractive cut flowers. Plants may readily self-seed under favorable conditions, providing colorful blooms year after year.
Quick Specs
- Origin: Introduced
- Type: Annual
- Color: White/Pink/Violet
- Height: 12-18 inches
- Width/spread: 6-12 inches
- Sunlight: Full sun/Partial shade
- Water: Dry
- Bloom Season: Early to mid-summer
- Planting Time: Spring or fall
- Zones: 3b-10a
- Use: Edges, cottage, fairy, and rock gardens, pollinator, butterfly, and drought-tolerant plantings, or in containers.
- Attracts: Butterflies, bees
- Packet weight: 1.5 grams
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