Wallflower, it loves climbing high

Wallflower is a little flower with an endearing scent that is a must-have in perennial flower beds for its colors as much as for its unique shape.

Summary of wallflower facts

Name – Erysimum
Family – Brassicaceae
Type – annual or biennial

Height – 8 to 16 inches (20 to 40 cm)
Exposure – full sun
Soil – ordinary, well drained

Flowering – April to October depending on the variety

Planting, sowing wallflower

What you’ve got with this wallflower is a plant that will actually thrive where usually none of the other plants can grow.

When purchased in small pots, it is a good idea to plant in spring or in fall. Settling it down near a passing place is interesting since it releases a delightful fragrance.

• Select a very sunny spot.
• Water over the first weeks that follow the planting.
• No point in providing fertilizer, wallflower doesn’t need any.

Sowing wallflower

Regarding any wallflower seeds you may want to sow, simply sow in a nursery starting from the month of March and transfer to the ground during the month of May.

Summer wallflower, for its part, requires sowing in February-March in a sheltered place. After that, you can transfer it to the growing bed in May for it to bloom in summer.

But you can also sow directly in the ground, especially ravenelle wallflower, once any risk of frost is set aside, from May to July.

• First of all, break the soil up with a couple strokes of the spade, and then broadcast seeds.
• Water regularly until seeds sprout and then as soon as the soil is dry.
• Thin to 12 inches (30 cm) when several leaves have appeared on each plant.

Pruning and caring for wallflower

No specific care is required, but, to boost flower-bearing, remove wilted flowers often.

If your wallflower starts spreading too far, simply pull a portion of it out – but don’t do this when seeds are about to fall or you’ll be sowing a trail of wallflowers behind you!

If slugs and/or snails wreck havoc, you’ll have to find a way to make them flee… just as you’ll have to deal with the caterpillars of that elegant white butterfly, Pieris brassicae (otherwise called the cabbage moth).

All there is to know about wallflower

Very aesthetic and bearing incredible amounts of flowers, this perennial grown as an annual or a biennial is aptly called flower of the wall.

Indeed, it settles right in any old stone wall, where it sows seeds in nooks and crannies year after year.

It also does great, however, in flower beds and garden boxes with its beautiful, short-lived but abundant blooming.

The flower definitely releases a fragrance that is close to that of cloves, quite intriguingly so.

It adapts to the most difficult growing spots, and decorates them in a transcending manner.