Globe Candytuft
Iberis umbellata. BRASSICACEAE (CRUCIFERAE).
Planting and Growing Globe Candytuft
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow globe candytuft in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of globe candytuft
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for globe candytuft
- Season of bloom and planting time for globe candytuft
- When, how deep, and where to plant globe candytuft
- How to plant globe candytuft
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of globe candytuft
- Landscape and container uses of globe candytuft
- Comments about globe candytuft and its features
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Growing Globe Candytuft
Many cultivars of bushy, branching annual herbs, to 16 in. (40 cm) tall. Shiny, green, lance-shaped, narrow leaves, to 3-1/2-in. (90-mm) long.
Common cultivars include Iberis umbellata ‘Fairy Mixed’, ‘Flash Mixed’, and ‘White Pinnacle’.
See also Candytuft, Iberis sempervirens, a related perennial species with similar care needs.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many pink, purple, red, simple, 4-petaled flowers, 1/4–1/2-in. (6–12-mm) wide, in round, globelike clusters, to 3 in. (75 mm) wide, in late spring–autumn.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 3–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full sun, 12–15 in. (30–38 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed. Start seed indoors 6–8 weeks before final frost for early blooms; transplant when frost hazard has passed. Plant successions for continual bloom.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep moist; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Fertilize monthly. Deadhead spent flowers to prolong bloom. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for beds, borders, containers, massed plantings in cottage, rock gardens. Good companion for spring bulbs. Smog tolerant. Pest and disease resistant.