Erysimum Winter Romance - Wallflower

Erysimum 'Winter Romance' enchants spring with its spikes of fragrant flowers in soft shades of mauve and cream. This false wallflower is a very persistent plant, hardy down to -7°C (19.4°F) in well-drained soil, with an early flowering that won't end until the end of summer. It is very romantic when accompanied by pansies and red or purple grasses!

Most commonly originating from limestone regions of southern Europe, central Asia, and North America, Erysimum, close to wallflowers, belong to the Brassicaceae family, just like rapeseed and mustard. These shrubs or short-lived perennials prefer very well-drained, even poor and limestone soils.

The 'Winter Romance' Erysimum is a well-branched little bush, a little taller than wide, about 30-40 cm (12-16in), with narrow, evergreen, dark green foliage. It is ideal in pots, grown as a biennial, for the spring decoration of your containers and planters, but will also thrive in the garden in rockeries, or in well-drained soil and in the sun, where it will live for 3 to 5 years. Its flowering takes place from March to June, or even early July when summer is late to come... The numerous buds give rise to large flowers, twice as wide as those of classic wallflowers, but with the same typical 4-petal shape of the cruciferous family. Gathered in beautiful spikes, they are of a mauve colour when they open gradually lightening as they bloom to take on a very soft cream shade, creating a bouquet with pastel, refined and romantic shades. A sweet wallflower fragrance spreads in the air in good weather, perfuming a whole area of the garden.

Perfect in pots where you can easily be watered and fed because it is actually a rather demanding plant... you can associate it as you wish with bulbs such as daffodils and jonquils, pink or red biennial flowers, or even orange ones, chosen from the range of pansies, primroses, and other violas. But don't deprive yourself of expanding your creative palette with other early perennials (arabis, candytufts, aubrietas, Moroccan marguerites...) and especially decorative foliage grasses like persistent Carex.. All these combinations will create beautiful spring scenes in flower pots on the patio or balcony. 

Note: Please be aware that our plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible, in pots, planters or directly in flower beds.