Another one of those seemingly boring little things that turn out to be “superplants” in the dry garden. Lobularia maritima is a Mediterranean native and a fast-growing, long-blooming ground cover with small white or purple, honey-scented flowers.
In my garden, depending on location, they bloom in the spring before going dry in the summer (can be cut back at that time) and coming back green and blooming from september/october into november. Some even keep right on blooming through winter and into the next spring. All that without any additional watering.
Lobularia maritima will self-seed and pop up in surprising corners of the garden, very far from where it grew the year before.
Being of the brassicae (mustard and cabbage) family, those plants that grew next to the vegetable garden attracted a lot of cabbage bugs (Eurydema oleracea) last summer.
Young leaves, stems and flowers are edible and have a sharp mustard taste.
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