In the picture on the left hand side of the photograph, I used silverweed leaves, white alyssum, roses and larkspur leaves.

The flowers used were pieces of conifer and some pink heather, with red and white hawthorn flowers to give added colour, plus a little white alyssum.

Some shinnied up the high walls surrounding his home and leapt into his lush internal courtyard, knocking down pots of delicate white alyssum.

Take white sweet alyssum, for example.

When I began growing plants in containers, I kept religiously to the tried and true ultrapatriotic mix of cherry-red geraniums, white alyssum and blue lobelia.

One of the most common yet pretty combinations is geranium, usually a bright red flowered one with a ruffle of white alyssum around the edges.

Although the white sweet alyssum is the most popular, probably more spectacular are edges of combination plantings with the white-flowered plants alternated with the violet-colored forms.

For the summer the space was filled in with white sweet alyssum.

Either dusty miller or white sweet alyssum are suggested as combination plants with this celosia to make a striking summer show.

I knelt down to peer at the spreading clumps of white alyssum.