Talkback: How to grow wallflowers - Talkback

Mollymac

24/11/2011 at 15:27

As a recent logger-on to G.W. I love the on-site videos. Just viewed pricking out seedlings with Monty. Its great having experts in my living room. Molly Mac.

meiow

24/11/2011 at 15:29

Bought about 20 barerooted strong wallflower plants and they are now in.

Grew some from seed in the Spring which did flower and are still looking very green and healthy.

I think the thing to remember is that these plants can grow in walls so don't a good quality soil, I've just planted mine in soil ( if you can can call it that) that is very dry and full of tree roots,but I'm confident that they will do well

audrey23

24/11/2011 at 15:29

Wallflowers, are they hardy? I planted some about two yars ago and I haven't seen them since they died that Winter.

Maureen Stewart

15/04/2012 at 10:15

How do we prune wallflowers to ensure healthy growth after spring bloom.
We have had a wonderful display but wonder how and when they need to be cut back.

Violet Hudson

20/04/2012 at 10:08

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sotongeoff

20/04/2012 at 11:39

Wallflowers are basically a short lived spring flowering perennial so you sow from seed in May/June or buy in plants around September for flowering the following year-most people then ditch them to make way for summer bedding-you can keep them for subsequent years but they turn into woody straggly plants.

There is also another perenniel variety- Erisium -usually mauve or yellow

All are completely hardy

earlybirdie

20/04/2012 at 15:02

I have some purple wallfowers that I planted about 5 years ago and they have continued to flower ever since, summer and winter, snow and sun. One became too woody and straggly, as sotongeoff mentioned above, so has gone, but cuttings from it are flourishing, and one of the originals is still there.

I don't know what I am doing right, but they get plenty of sun and the soil in that area is not fed often.

Lolly48

12/05/2012 at 20:03

My walllflower has grown so wide can it be pruned back?

Kerry Wilson2

18/05/2012 at 21:15

How long do wallflowers flower

Jean Foster

27/05/2012 at 16:55

when to prune wallflowers

Vanessa Mooney

13/11/2012 at 16:54

I bought 30 small wallflower plants ...white and put in last weekend hoping for a good show in spring will small plants flower in spring on first yr

sotongeoff

13/11/2012 at 17:06

Vanessa Mooney wrote (see)

I bought 30 small wallflower plants ...white and put in last weekend hoping for a good show in spring will small plants flower in spring on first yr

They should do-yes

Verdun

13/11/2012 at 19:05

Jean, unless you have a perennial wallflower you don't prune them. When flowering is over, late spring, dig them up. In their place plant summer subjects. If you want a perennial wallflower look for Erysimum Bowles Mauve.....this has glaucous blue foliage and purplish flowers the whole summer long. Wallflowers naturally grow in poor soil but I grow mine on in the veg patch so that they make bushy plants some 2' high that make impressive impact

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