Vibrant Blooms

With their striking blend of white, pink, and purple petals, our Candytuft wild flowers create a lively display that draws attention and fills in outdoor spaces. Used as a border or ground cover seeds, they provide lasting color, adding charm and vibrancy to your garden throughout the season.

Drought-Tolerant

Our Candytuft is known for its drought tolerance and can endure dry periods once established. This hardy plant requires little water to keep blooming, making it a practical fit for water-conscious gardens. It remains low-maintenance while still offering vibrant color with minimal upkeep.

Erosion Control

Candytuft’s dense growth makes them useful ground cover plants for erosion control. Their spreading roots stabilize soil on slopes or uneven terrain. By covering exposed areas, they limit soil loss while adding beauty to gardens. They’re practical solutions for maintaining landscape integrity.

Long-Lasting Blooms

With blooms that last for weeks, our Candytuft brings enduring color to your garden throughout the season. Their vibrant flowers remain intact for an extended period, offering steady visual appeal. These hardy blossoms add lasting beauty to your landscape, making them a wonderful addition.

Candytuft (Iberis Umbellata) - This wild flower is so easy to grow from Candytuft seeds! Annual Candytuft is a wild flower that is just about as wonderful as its cousin which is perennial Candytuft. When planted from wildflower seed, it begins flowering within just a few short months with colors ranging from white to pink to purple. It is taller and less compact than perennial Candytuft, but as you can see, the colors are striking and it makes a wonderful addition to the wild flower seed garden or to use as a taller ground cover plant.

Annual Iberis is often sold and planted by itself, or it can commonly be found in wild flower seed mixes due to its easy seeding and growth habits. If you want to start a wildflower garden but really don't have a clue how and what to do, Iberis Umbellata Candytuft is a good wild flower seed to start with. You can simply broadcast the Candytuft seeds, lightly rake it, keep it moist and before long you will have a brilliant display of flowers. People will think you are a wildflower expert! This is also a good ground cover plant for gardening with kids because it grows and flowers so fast from flower seed. If your winters are not harsh, wild Candytuft can survive the winters. It is best to snip the seed pods after flowering and give it a good bed of mulch in the fall to increase its survival rate.

Vibrant Blooms

With their striking blend of white, pink, and purple petals, our Candytuft wild flowers create a lively display that draws attention and fills in outdoor spaces. Used as a border or ground cover seeds, they provide lasting color, adding charm and vibrancy to your garden throughout the season.

Drought-Tolerant

Our Candytuft is known for its drought tolerance and can endure dry periods once established. This hardy plant requires little water to keep blooming, making it a practical fit for water-conscious gardens. It remains low-maintenance while still offering vibrant color with minimal upkeep.

Erosion Control

Candytuft’s dense growth makes them useful ground cover plants for erosion control. Their spreading roots stabilize soil on slopes or uneven terrain. By covering exposed areas, they limit soil loss while adding beauty to gardens. They’re practical solutions for maintaining landscape integrity.

Long-Lasting Blooms

With blooms that last for weeks, our Candytuft brings enduring color to your garden throughout the season. Their vibrant flowers remain intact for an extended period, offering steady visual appeal. These hardy blossoms add lasting beauty to your landscape, making them a wonderful addition.

Candytuft (Iberis umbellata Fire Ice) - A wonderful mix of highly contrasting red and white flowers. Candytuft if very adaptable and requires only one essential element: good drainage.  Native to Europe, it has adapted to all regions of the United States. This low, bushy plant produces mounds of beautiful red and white flowers which last well into the summer months. Prefers a gravelly, well drained soil in full sun. Candytuft cannot tolerate damp soil conditions or shade.

Start Candytuft seeds indoors 6 - 8 weeks before the end of frost season. Press the ground cover seeds into the soil but do not cover them. Iberis umbellata seeds can also be started directly outdoors in a prepared seedbed once frost season has passed. Candytuft annual plants are fairly drought tolerant, but they do require occasional deep watering. This flowering ground cover plant prefers full sun to light shade. Some gardeners cut plants back after blooming to encourage some blooming throughout the summer. Iberis is a beautiful, flowering, low-growing, ground cover plant that will establish nicely from ground cover seeds.

Vibrant Blooms

With their striking blend of white, pink, and purple petals, our Candytuft wild flowers create a lively display that draws attention and fills in outdoor spaces. Used as a border or ground cover seeds, they provide lasting color, adding charm and vibrancy to your garden throughout the season.

Drought-Tolerant

Our Candytuft is known for its drought tolerance and can endure dry periods once established. This hardy plant requires little water to keep blooming, making it a practical fit for water-conscious gardens. It remains low-maintenance while still offering vibrant color with minimal upkeep.

Erosion Control

Candytuft’s dense growth makes them useful ground cover plants for erosion control. Their spreading roots stabilize soil on slopes or uneven terrain. By covering exposed areas, they limit soil loss while adding beauty to gardens. They’re practical solutions for maintaining landscape integrity.

Long-Lasting Blooms

With blooms that last for weeks, our Candytuft brings enduring color to your garden throughout the season. Their vibrant flowers remain intact for an extended period, offering steady visual appeal. These hardy blossoms add lasting beauty to your landscape, making them a wonderful addition.

Candytuft (Iberis umbellata Pretty) - A wonderful mix of highly contrasting pink and white flowers. Candytuft if very adaptable and requires only one essential element: good drainage. Native to Europe, it has adapted to all regions of the United States. This low, bushy plant produces mounds of beautiful pink and white flowers which last well into the summer months. Prefers a gravelly, well drained soil in full sun. Candytuft cannot tolerate damp soil conditions or shade.

Start Candytuft seeds indoors 6 - 8 weeks before the end of frost season. Press the ground cover seeds into the soil but do not cover them. Iberis umbellata seeds can also be started directly outdoors in a prepared seedbed once frost season has passed. Candytuft annual plants are fairly drought tolerant, but they do require occasional deep watering. This flowering ground cover plant prefers full sun to light shade. Some gardeners cut plants back after blooming to encourage some blooming throughout the summer. Iberis is a beautiful, flowering, low-growing, ground cover plant that will establish nicely from ground cover seeds.