How to Grow Basket of Gold

12.06.2023 - 00:54 / gardenerspath.com / Garden Merit

Also known as basket of gold, rock goldentuft, and yellow alyssum, Aurinia saxatilis is an enchanting perennial that will charm your garden with an explosion of color.

The stunning yellow flowers will be on full display for up to six weeks in late spring and early summer.

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If you live in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 through 7, I encourage you to add this charming ornamental to your landscape.

Its popularity and gorgeous flowers earned this plant the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit, and it’s not hard to see why!

Often used in rock and pollinator gardens, this mat-forming, low-growing plant has a creeping habit. After your basket of gold has finished flowering, its evergreen foliage serves as an attractive ground cover year-round.

If you’re here reading this article, I’m delighted to share with you what’s ahead. A. saxatilis, like many types of alpine plants, are incredibly unfussy and almost indestructible.

They can be grown by beginner gardeners and thrive – my favorite kind of plant!

Aurinia saxatilis is native to the rocky and mountainous regions between central and southeastern Europe and Turkey. It thrives in sloping, shallow, and dry conditions with low humidity.

This species belongs to the Brassicaceae, or mustard and cabbage, family. It’s closely related to sweet alyssum, a popular and fragrant annual with similar qualities that is also suited to growing in containers.

With a shallow root system that allows it to thrive in its native environment on the sides and slopes of mountains, basket of gold will grow well in shallow