Erysimum Bedder Plug Plant Mix - Wallflower

Erysimum Bedder Mix Plug Plants is a mix of wallflowers that bears large blooms in shades of red, yellow, orange, or white. They are gathered in dense spikes that create a beautiful contrast with the purple foliage. The incandescent flowering lasts for 3 months, from March to May, sometimes starting in February in mild climates. This stout and compact mix will work wonders in sunny borders, rockeries, or banks, and even in pots on balconies or patios. This biennial mix is actually a short-lived perennial. It is not very hardy, but is easy to grow in the sun, in well-drained soils, even poor and chalky ones.

Erysimum cheiri, also known as Cheiranthus cheiri, belongs to the Brassicaceae family. It is native to southern Europe, and is perfectly adapted to dry and chalky soils. This short-lived perennial is not very hardy. It is most often cultivated as a biennial or annual.

The 'Bedder Mix' variety is part of a series selected for its compact and branched habit, and its very long multicoloured spring flowering. It quickly forms upright, bushy and compact clumps, with woody bases, covered in lanceolate leaves that are shaped like swords. The foliage is brownish-purple to bronze, with a satin-like appearance. Flowering begins in March and continues until summer. In mild climates, and provided it is cut back at the end of the season, this plant will show itself to be perennial (short-lived) and will even flower in winter. The 4-petalled flowers, 5 to 6cm (2in) wide, are fragrant in hot weather. They are gathered in racemes at the top of leafy stems 35cm (14in) tall. They are popular with pollinating insects that find one of the first nectars of spring at the bottom of their corollas.

Appreciated in gardens for its ease of cultivation and its tendency to self-seed in the most unlikely places, wallflowers and their cultivars are excellent rock garden plants, which thrive even in somewhat difficult soils. They also work well within walls. These plants work wonders in the border of a flower bed, in the company of love-in-a-mist, Californian poppies, and perennial flax, or in a bed with taller plants like toadflaxes, mulleins, or gauras, which are just as undemanding. It can also be placed in a pot on a patio or balcony, or near a doorway, to fully enjoy its generous flowering.

Please be aware that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners. Upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible in pots and containers, or directly in flower beds.