COLLEGE STATION — Lobularia White Stream, a hybrid alyssum, has been selected as one of the 2015 Texas Superstar plants.
“White Stream is a new type of alyssum that will survive the heat of Texas summers,” said Dr. Brent Pemberton, Texas A&M AgriLife Research ornamental horticulturist and head of the Texas Superstar board, Overton.
Alyssum has traditionally been a cool-season plant, Pemberton said.
“It’s been happy in summers up north where it’s cool. Here, we grow it in the fall, as a winter plant and it will usually survive the winter in a protected location,” he said. “But White Stream is just a whole new thing. In fact, it won’t tolerate freezing temperatures at all. It gives gardeners in Texas the opportunity to have that kind of plant in the summer landscape.”
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