This very hardy alpine is much like a dwarf form of our familiar wallflower, bearing narrow, dark green leaves with golden-yellow clusters of fragrant flowers with a long flowering period starting in early spring, till late summer. Hardy to -12°C it is ideal for rockeries and front-of-border positions, or even may be used in containers to add colour to early spring planting. ... Learn More

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' (or "Cheiranthus" as it used to be known) is one of the perpetual favourite garden flowers. But it has invariably been sterile producing no seeds, or at the very most the odd one. We have now developed a strain that DOES produce seed, so you can grow new forms for yourself and propagate the best ones from virus-free cuttings! All habits, from tiny to tall, and large and small flowers will appear, and including colour variations and bi-colours, from pale mauve to deepest purple. ... Learn More

Wallflowers, an essential ingredient of spring bedding, create a bright display and a rich scent, but are now mainly superseded by cultivars. However, the main original parent still surpasses many other cottage garden flowers! With narrow, dark-green foliage and four-petalled, sweetly-scented, bright yellow-orange flowers produced in short spikes in spring, it is well-worth growing or indeed naturalising in a hot dry spot. Good for attracting wildlife, bees and butterflies, it prefers a well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil and even maritime exposure. ... Learn More

An exquisite plant, producing a long succession of perfumed bright yellow flowers on a compact dome from Christmas onwards into late spring. This variety is especially desirable as it will gently self-seed into cracks and pathways never becoming a nuisance. ... Learn More

This new gem from our ongoing breeding programme possesses a full hand of aces! The seeds, collected individually as they ripen, should produce unique, enormous, hardy perennial plants which make strong stout stems, almost trunks, in their second year. Plant them out as small plants, they will not thrive in a small pot, and it is essential they are given room to grow unhindered in an open position, when they will spread out into a solid dome of branches clad in evergreen leaves. In the following late winter to early spring, (and ours flower earlier than all other perennial erysimums we grow,) they will produce an amazing, long-lasting display of fragrant flowers. They are predominantly orange, deeper-veined in red, but you will invariably discover plants with other colour shades. One of the distant parents was 'Erysimum Bowles' Mauve', but this new strain is far more vigorous, and being seedlings they are virus-free. ... Learn More

Growing best in dry, sandy soil, this unusual colour variant is an attractive biennial/perennial, consisting of several stout stems arising from a basal clump of leathery leaves which have toothed margins. Found naturally on the Western edges of North America, this seldom-seem wallflower has much larger and also paler flowers than others of its kind. ... Learn More

This species can be found in regions across North America, from the Great Lakes to the West Coast of the United States and Alaska. mustard-like plant with thin, erect stems growing from a basal rosette and topped with dense bunches of variably colored flowers. Flowers are most typically bright golden, yellow, tangerine-colored, but plants in some populations may have red, white or purple flowers. Each flower has four flat petals. Seed pods are nearly parallel to the stem. ... Learn More

Golden yellow fragrant flowers open sequentially above compact cushions of bright green leaves. To encourage compactness and repeat blooming, shear the first set of blooms before seeds are set. One of the very best of the wild wallflowers, this dwarf and ancient plant has a long and well-deserved history in gardens. Whether it’s the ability of the brilliant yellow flowers to brighten spring gardens, or the ease with which it attracts birds and butterflies to flower beds, the flowers will begin to brighten your gardens in the spring and continue into the summer. It has a long history in gardens dating back to 1838, when this wonderful plant was introduced, new and exciting to gardeners. ... Learn More

This rare Polish endemic giant wallflower survives in just one area on the calcareous hill of Czorsztyn Castle at 500 metres above sea level where it grows into a sizeable bush smothered in bright yellow fragrant flowers. ... Learn More

Many years ago we crossed several erysimum varieties including 'Bowles Mauve', E. linifolium and E. scoparius, with dwarf commercial wallflowers producing some unbelievable new plants. We are now releasing a few more valuable, individually hand-collected seeds from these lovely hybrids. Many plants grown from these unique seeds have been reproduced in large numbers and sold worldwide, so expect all habits and colours. These wonderful plants should all be of a very high standard and commercially valuable if propagated. ... Learn More

By crossing a selection of very large perennial wallflower species and varieties such as Bowles' Mauve hybrids, with some good-coloured, tall and large-flowered annual ones, we have developed some quite enormous hybrids. These will make exceptionally large, perennial, evergreen shrubby wallflowers, all carrying differently twin-toned flowers, and, most valuably, some of which will flower very early indeed in the season, some before the very earliest commercial varieties available! ... Learn More

From high on the mountains of the Canary Islands comes this ancestral relative of garden wallflowers. Long, almost ever-blooming spikes of pinkish-lilac flowers, open on slender stems, above fine, grey-green foliage, which forms a low dense shrub, much wider than it is tall. It is completely drought tolerant in summer, thus ideal for a very sunny, well drained soil. It will also grow quite happily in all but the wettest, shadiest sites. It is very low maintenance, needing no dead heading, spent flower heads virtually disappearing. ... Learn More

Cluster of bright yellow, scented flowers open on thin stems bearing narrow leaves and later twisted seed pods. A rare species in the wild, it is occasionally encountered on rocky ridges, where it is known as the 'sand-dwelling wallflower'. It likes gritty, well drained soil and flowers from mid spring to early summer. Native to British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, it is found at high elevations from 900 to 2200 m in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains as well as on Vancouver Island. ... Learn More

This dazzling orange-flowered plant produces sprays of spicy-scented, vivid orange flowers in early spring. Preferring a full sun position, it will open its cheerful deep orange blooms from spring right through to early summer. They are very easy to grow and combine well with other plants, often gently self-seeding where they can find a happy corner. They absolutely love poor soil, and are magnets for both bees and butterflies . Received a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (1993). ... Learn More