{"id":10271,"date":"2020-03-26T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=10271"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:38:47","slug":"siberian-wallflowers-tough-winter-annuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2020\/03\/26\/siberian-wallflowers-tough-winter-annuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Siberian Wallflowers – Tough Winter Annuals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Citrona Yellow’ wallflower in Dallas Botanical Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n

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‘Bowles Mauve’ wallflower<\/p><\/div>\n

In areas of the U.S. where winters are mild, Siberian Wallflower (Erysimum<\/em> cheiri), (formerly\u00a0Cheiranthus cheiri),\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0\u00a0an early flowering favorite in the late winter garden. The species hails from Southern Europe (USDA hardiness zones 7-9). Many books list them as biennials and a few as “tempermental perennials”.<\/p>\n

Wallflower is a woody-based herbaceous perennial subshrub in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). They produce clusters (racemes) of fragrant 4-petaled flowers in a showy floral display bloom in the early spring cool weather followed by narrow pendant dehiscent seed pods.<\/p>\n

Wallflowers, depending on variety,\u00a0 grow to 6-24 inches tall and slightly less in width. Flowers (each to 3\/4 inches wide) are mostly bright yellow or yellow-orange to brown, but sometimes appear reddish purple to burgundy. Bright green leaves (to 2-8 inches long by 3\/4 inches wide) are narrow and pointed.<\/p>\n

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Wallflowers are easy to grow, adapting to most types of well-drained soil and in full to partial sun.\u00a0 Full morning sun is preferred in cool northern areas. Plant them in rock gardens. border fronts or in raised beds in late winter. Fertilize lightly after planting and when late winter\/spring flowering begins. No serious insect or disease problems trouble wallflowers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This biennial plant will self-seed; you may want to cultivate seedlings for next winter’s garden. Otherwise, sow seeds in spring for bloom early next year.<\/div>\n
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Wallflowers have naturalized in British Columbia, Washington and California. In the southern U.S. they’re just catching on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In areas of the U.S. where winters are mild, Siberian Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri), (formerly\u00a0Cheiranthus cheiri),\u00a0is\u00a0\u00a0an early flowering favorite in the late winter garden. The species hails from Southern Europe (USDA hardiness zones 7-9). Many books list them as biennials and a few as “tempermental perennials”. Wallflower is a woody-based herbaceous perennial subshrub in the mustard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1218,747,1319,1438,6,665,1324,602,853,551,1059,729,1451,777,705,1,1521,113,708],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}