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Erysimum
Bowles Mauve * Purple Wall Flower |
| Erysimum Bowles Mauve
brings to mind graceful round balls of purple. The leaves are gray green and slender, the flowers held on
stalks above the foliage. Erysimum Bowles Mauve will last 2 seasons and maybe three. Often it
should have been pulled out after the two but stays anyways with the misbegotten hope that
it will recover. The flower stalks can get to three feet in diameter.
The plants will look better if
the flower stalks are removed once they get more than a foot long.
Trimming off the older flowers encourages new ones. It blooms spring
through fall. Erysimum Bowles Mauve is used best for a young garden or to give
highlights to an older one. I think of using it much like an annual
that lasts for a couple of seasons. The plant used to go
under the genus name of Chieranthes.
High resolution images of
Erysimum Bowles Mauve are
available.
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