SYST 250 Seeds Empress White Candytuft Rocket Flower

Add fragrant candytuft to your garden for a charming old world look. Enchanting empress white rocket flowers are sure to bring a unique ambiance to the environment. Also known as clowns mustard, and white candytuft, this bitter-tasting evergreen flowering Brassicaceae is native to western, central and southern Europe.

Additionally, Candytuft contains glucosinolates, flavonoles and curcurbitacines that are anticonvulsive and anti-inflammatory. It's roots in medicine begin in 80 A.D., where it caught attention for its use on gastrointestinal issues.

Since then, it's uses in homeopathy have expanded and it has become esteemed as a flower of both beauty and function. Indeed, Iberis Amara makes for a sight of beauty growing in a pretty pot that will spruce up a patio table or an outside bench like poinsettias do at Christmas time!

Germination instructions: Candytuft seeds germinate at temperatures between 65-85 degrees, sown 1/4 an inch deep. Once the temperature is right, keep the seeds and soil moist and expect germination to occur within 20 days. Likewise, if started indoors they can best germinate under temperature-controlled conditions. If needed, add a heat mat underneath the starter tray for successful numbers.