“A wallflower is someone with an introverted personality type who will attend parties and social gatherings, but will usually distance themselves from the crowd and actively avoid being in the limelight.” Not so the blaze that is burning in the pumpkin bed in the kitchen garden. Smouldering, velvety reds and fiery oranges, so sumptuous and at odds with the awakening of a British spring. With their unmistakable perfume, a warm, comforting sweetness of violets and cloves, the garden wallflowers are anything but. 

Erysimum cheiri hails originally from Greece and the wallflower really gets its name from the ease with which it seeds into the crevices of buildings where it lives on apparently nothing. The species is mostly gold-flowered and you can see the flame in the plants that have been selected for the garden and have been adapted to garden culture. Mostly bedding in high Edwardian style for the wallflower comes with tulips.