Where can I buy Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve' wallflower seeds?
young codger
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I`m keen to obtain some seeds for the mauve coloured perennial wallflower. Anyone know where I can get the seeds (see link).
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91464/i-Erysimum-i-Bowles-s-Mauve/Details
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I think Erysimum Bowles Mauve don't produce seeds and those could be sterile.
Better to get a plant and take cuttings
Cuttings root really easily and with care you can increase your stock and have replacement plants for when they finally flower themselves to death. Mine has had flowers all through last spring and summer and all through the winter too. Amazing plants and bees love them too!
I'm glad you two have told me that. I would have wasted a lot of time searching for seeds-thank you. I'll look for plants now and do as advised.
Update.
Just got back from the local nursery. Got 3 bushy specimens for £2.20 each. Well rooted too, not just potted up. Just given them a drink. Hoping to put them in the garden later today.
Thank you Madpenguin & Buttercupdays.
These never seem to be out of flower. i have one that i planted last Feb and it has literally flowering continually for over a year. I must try taking some cuttings but it's hard to get a non flowering stem.
Lovely looking plants.I have about one season left in mine so I must take cuttings this year!
Hmmm, looks like I'll be popping round to B&Q on Easter Monday !
You can buy seeds for these, bit expensive but not as expensive as buying plants.
Plant World seeds say they've developed a strain that does produce seed. But is it really Bowles' Mauve if BM is sterile?
https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/flower_seed_categories/ERYSIMUM_SEEDS
they aren't saying that you will get Bowles' Mauve from them.
They say
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.
Theyre working on it? Worth a try? In a couple of years they will have them.
Maybe they are of the type that only throws a fertile seed very rarely.
i had a seed head from something else, (not wallflower) but there was only one viable seed in the whole head, the rest were sterile.
Last edited: 22 July 2017 15:35:23