Clear a space in your favorite container for the seasonal glamour of candytuft. With flowers emerging in mid- to late spring, it’s an early-blooming pick that offers perennial color and vibrance as ...

Candytuft is a low growing perennial that tolerates cold, heat and drought. Sometimes called a superstar in the perennial world and a long-time favorite of many gardeners, this evergreen blankets rock ...

Creeping Phlox and Candytuft are two plants that look good year-round and do not require a lot of work to keep them looking spiffy. They are both perennials and multiply, that is, where you have a ...

* What it is: Candytuft is one of the showiest short, spreading groundcovers when it's blooming with its snow-white dainty flowers for about three weeks in April. Dark-green, small-leafed foliage can ...

Spring is in the swing of it and the happy blooming ground covers are really showing off. When I worked in a garden center, there seemed to be two early blooming ground covers that were highly sought ...

Q. I have several large candytuft plants that bloom beautifully in spring. After blooming, they hide or cover the areas I want to plant annuals in. Is it OK to prune them back? A. Early-bloom ...

Candytuft -Iberis sempervirens is a low growing, flowering perennial native to southern Europe, which is hardy statewide. An early spring bloomer, it prefers full sun but will tolerate partial shade.

SPECIES: Iberis (eye-beer’is for candytuft) sempervirens (sem-per-vy’renz for evergreen). Candytuft named for its place of origin, the English Candia, meaning Crete. Annual candytuft was grown in ...