Tightly packed blooms of snowy-white, many of which will be fully double and perfume the air with a sweet and spicy clove scent on strong, single stems. Traditionally a staple of cottage gardens, stocks have long been popular both for bedding and for providing cut flowers, but ‘Avalanche White’ would look stunning in a dark or metallic pot in a contemporary scheme, endearing itself to a whole new generation of gardeners. A hardy biennial when grown in summer for flowering early in the season of the following year, it is most commonly grown as an annual from a sowing in early spring.