Bowles Mauve is a wallflower Erysimum linifolium that performs for several years unlike its strongly scented cousins. It is a short lived evergreen perennial that gets a bit leggy if not kept in check. The plant flowers all summer long and it seems as though it is flowering itself to death.

• Take regular cuttings which are easy to root and grow on.
• It grows 2 feet high and wide in most types of soil preferring alkaline to acid
• Also try  other Perennial Wallflowers, Bowles Yellow or the shorter ‘Little Lilac Kiss’ from seed
• Erysimum perofskianum Gold Shot as its name suggests has golden yellow flowers
• Butterflies are attracted to this plant of the brassica family
• As a member of the Cruciferae family the flowers grow from stems originating in the centre of the grey leaves and have 4 petals each in the shape of a cross.

 

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