There are 7 species of clump forming biennials, perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in rocky mountainous regions of Central and Southern Europe and eastward to the Ukraine and Turkey. \u00a0These mainly spreading to mound, woody based plants form rosettes of hairy, inversely lance shaped to spoon shaped leaves. \u00a0In spring and early summer it bears racemes or panicles of 4 petalled, yellow or white flowers. \u00a0These vigorous plants are great in a rock garden, or the front of a border or in rock crevices.<\/p>\n
These frost hardy plants like light gritty, moderately fertile soil in full sun with good drainage. \u00a0Cut back after flowering to maintain compactness, if left un-trimmed they become leggy.<\/p>\n
Prone to\u00a0aphids.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Aurinia saxatilis <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Gold Dust\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Alyssum saxatile <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Gold Dust\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Basket of Gold \u2013 Cloth of Gold \u2013 Gold Dust \u2013<\/b><\/strong> This loose mound forming evergreen, perennial and grows 12\u201d tall and spreads to 12\u201d wide. \u00a0It produces rosettes of obovate, occasional pinnatifid, toothed, hairy gray-green leaves 1 \u00bc-3\u201d long. \u00a0In spring and early summer it\u2019s smothered with dense panicles of deep golden yellow flowers to \u00bd\u201d wide.<\/p>\n Zones 4-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aurinia – There are 7 species of clump forming biennials, perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in rocky mountainous regions of Central and Southern Europe and eastward to the Ukraine and Turkey. \u00a0These mainly spreading to mound, woody based plants form rosettes of hairy, inversely lance shaped to spoon shaped leaves. \u00a0In spring and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[19,21,55,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254573"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}