Wallflower Cheiranthus cheiri

LATIN NAME: Erysimum cheiri

COMMON NAME: Wallflower

LATIN NAME: Erysimum cheiri

COMMON NAME: Wallflower

There are few scents of the old garden as heady as the wallflower on a warm spring day. The wallflower grows as a short-lived perennial or a biennial herb, reaching up to half a metre or so, with the narrow, pointed, grey-green leaves and, from the early spring, the dense clusters of the four-petalled flowers in the warm shades of the orange, the gold, the rust and the deep red, carried on the upright stems. The flowers are strongly and sweetly fragrant, and a sunny wall or a bank of the wallflowers fills the whole garden with the scent through the spring. It is a species of the flowering herb in the cabbage family, native to the rocky ground of the southern Europe, and it is known as the wallflower.

The wallflower belongs to the cabbage family, Brassicaceae, and it is a short-lived perennial or biennial herb of the rocky ground of the southern Europe. Its four-petalled flowers and its narrow, grey-green leaves set it apart among the old garden flowers. It is known as the wallflower, and it is treasured for its scent and its early, warm flowering.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The wallflower has been looked at in the botany for its tough, rocky-ground ways and its sweetly scented flowers. The plant has drawn attention in the international horticultural press as a fine plant of the old garden, and the breeding of the garden wallflowers has produced the broad range of the warm colours and the scents. The chemistry of the fragrant flowers has been of interest to the researchers of the natural products, and the plant has been studied for its easy, early flowering in the cool garden. Its narrow, grey-green leaves and its tough ways have also been of interest in the botany. For a flower of the old garden with such a fine scent, the wallflower has a steady and homely record of study.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

For the spring garden, the wallflower is one of the earliest and the most fragrant of the bloomers. Its dense clusters of the warm-coloured, four-petalled flowers open from the early spring, when the garden is still thin, and their sweet scent carries on the first warm days of the year. The flowers draw the early bees, and the narrow, grey-green leaves give a neat, tidy look to the border and the wall. The wallflower has been a plant of the old gardens and the sunny walls for a very long time, and its warm, heady scent is one of the great pleasures of the spring. For a gardener of the sunny wall or the dry border, the wallflower is an easy and rewarding plant.

The wallflower has been a plant of the old gardens of the southern Europe for a very long time, and it has been grown against the warm, sunny walls where its seeds lodge in the cracks and the mortar. The garden wallflowers are usually grown as the biennials, sown one summer and flowering the next spring, and the warm range of the colours and the heady scent have made them a familiar of the spring garden. A sunny wall or a dry bank suits them best, and the narrow, grey-green leaves give a neat, tidy look through the year. The flowers draw the early bees, and their sweet scent is one of the great pleasures of the spring.

Scatter the small seeds over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining soil and press them in without covering them, since they like a little light, keep the pots in a bright, airy spot and water them sparingly, and the first fine seedlings will be up before long.

Common name:Erysimum cheiri seeds

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