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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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
We have had a wonderful display but wonder how and when they need to be cut back.
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
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.