Candytuft Plant Care: How to Grow & What To Know (Iberis Sempervirens)

In this video, I share everything you need to know to grow Candytuft — a gorgeous evergreen perennial that is covered with pretty white flowers in Spring. I’ll start with why you want Candytuft in your garden, then move on to growing requirements, seeds and seedlings, dividing, propagating, and pruning; the growth rate and spread; plus why your Candytuft might be struggling. And finally: Candytuft varieties and where to buy them. Please use the Chapter headings below to jump to a specific section.

Chapters:

0:00 - What is Candytuft?
0:51 - Why you want Candytuft in your garden!
2:53 - Candytuft is deer and rabbit resistant
3:12 - Growing requirements and how to plant
6:21 - Seeds and seedlings
7:12 - Can you divide Candytuft plants?
7:38 - How to propagate Candytuft
8:05 - Pruning
8:34 - How fast does Candytuft grow?
9:10 - How fast does Candytuft spread?
9:26 - Why is my Candytuft turning yellow?
10:11 - Candytuft varieties
10:34 - Where to buy


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🍃 CANDYTUFT VARIETIES 🍃

This is an incomplete list, but should get you started!

🤍 Purity — compact variety blooming in late Spring

🤍 Alexander’s White — like Purity, has pure white flowers

🤍 Snowflake — very showy profusion of small white blooms in late Spring and early Summer

🤍 Summer Snowdrift — supposedly blooms throughout Spring and Summer

🤍 Snow Cushion — a dwarf version of an already adorable plant

🤍 Whiteout — an improved selection with more uniform flowering — early to late Spring

🤍 Little Gem — only 8 inches tall, but spreads to 24 inches

🤍 Snowball — bigger flowers and tighter habit

🤍 Snowsation — another larger flower variety on tidy mounded plants

🤍 Iberis Pink Ice — the first pink variety

🤍 Absolutely Amethyst — purple flowers dotted with tiny yellow stamens  — flowers later Spring and early Summer

🤍 First Flush Lavender Candytuft — light purple flowers supposedly from early Spring into Fall

🤍 Masterpiece — unusually large white blooms with a pink center (supposedly from Spring to early Autumn)

🤍 Autumn Beauty — has a second blooming in Fall

🤍 October Glory — second blooming same as Autumn Beauty

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