Plants: Gypsophila paniculata - Baby's Breath

Not just for bouquets--Baby's Breath is stunning in the garden, too! A Cloud of Snowy White! Long-lived and easy to care for, these plants greet summer with thousands of blooms! A permanent, gloriously beautiful source of white blooms for enjoying in the garden and the vase! Each no bigger than a pencil eraser, these tiny, pure-white blooms are set in clusters all along sturdy, very well-branched stems. The effect of a plant in full bloom is tremendous--it looks like a giant, weightless cloud in the early-summer garden!Invaluable for bouquets and arrangements both fresh and dried, Baby's Breath is also a fine source of airy, misty color in the garden--particularly effective with large, brightly-colored blooms or with vertical ornamental grasses.

Best performance is in very well-limed soil. Long-lived and very bushy, the plants grow to about 3 feet high and wide in the sunny garden. Zones 4-9.

Publisher: Hirt's Gardens