The local gardeners all buy their wallflowers bare-rooted from Columbia Road's Sunday plant market. They come crudely bundled together, with clay sticking to their roots, and thrive happily in any clay-based soil. The colours (which one can't tell when buying, obviously) vary from lemon yellow to rust red,with every intervening shade, and they smell wonderful.
I've never found them to self-seed, though. Must get better at not only harvesting but using the seed from my favourites....
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What a brilliant idea, thanks Verdun!
The local gardeners all buy their wallflowers bare-rooted from Columbia Road's Sunday plant market. They come crudely bundled together, with clay sticking to their roots, and thrive happily in any clay-based soil. The colours (which one can't tell when buying, obviously) vary from lemon yellow to rust red,with every intervening shade, and they smell wonderful.
I've never found them to self-seed, though. Must get better at not only harvesting but using the seed from my favourites....