For attractive year-round foliage in a clean, compact mound, grow evergreen Candytuft. Candytuft (Iberis semperiverns) has to be one of the most exquisite perennials available with its sparkling white lace flowers and deep green waxy foliage that always signals the plant is drought-tolerant. Candytuft stays short, growing only to about ten inches, but will spread into a two-foot diameter. The tight, compact shape and small lace-like flowers that cover the foliage from May to April give Iberis status as an edging perennial and a container plant. The perennial’s natural affinity towards alkaline soil also gives it status as a rock garden alpine perennial. The squat lowness of Candytuft plus the...
Candytuft – Iberis: Icy White Flowers, Evergreen Foliage
