I planted this variety last year and was very happy with them. They were easy to grow, covered the border of my garden well and lasted into the Fall. This variety is dwarf, which in my opinion, look neater and less leggy than the taller types. Best of all, the Oriental Nights flowers have a lovely scent and magnificent range of purple hues! I will keep planting them year after year!

I'm in zone 6a. I started these in trays and transplanted them out after the danger of frost. the germination rate of these are slightly worse then the white variety. It also spreads slower. But it surely grows it in to a mound of purple flowers if you give it time. Recommend it!

I'm in zone 7b and a beginning but enthusiastic gardener who researches the heck out of everything. I started a few of these and the Tiny Tim variety indoors Feb . 20th, but the seedlings looked frail and leggy (probably due to insufficient light. So I decided to direct sow them along the garden path where I intended them to grow and boy! did they germinate. Direct sowed March 23 and filled any gaps I saw with the few seedlings I had - after hardening those off - on April 18th. The seedlings started blooming first and by mid-may parts of the path that get full sun all day were blooming. By June the entire path was lined with fragrant alyssum! And they are still going strong now (Sept. 13). I read somewhere that if you cut them back regularly they will keep on blooming, so every so often I've cut back patches of them and I do think that's what's kept them going. Two minor notes: 1) despite plenty of bees and butterflies visiting my garden, they did not care for either alyssums. I am wondering if it's because some traditional pollinator flowers are over hybridized/developed and lose their pollinator attractiveness along the way (yarrow seems to have the same issues). 2) is that the Oriental Night variety is a less vigorous grower and bloomer than the Tiny Tim one, but am super happy with both. Will definitely get these again for next year and think I'll get the other varieties as well and have a fun colorful path. Do hope the other varieties will make pollinators happier.