Erysimum cheiri ‘Fire King’ seeds – ( Wallflower)

Description

This is a wonderfully scented old variety with beautiful glowing amber-scarlet velvet flowers. It is a great no care plant for the garden which will give you flowers for many weeks in spring and summer, and makes a lovely cut flower for the house. It is best treated as a biennal though technically classed as a perennial.

These plants grow a good size ( approx 40 cm) and will benefit from being supported in some form . A tip is to spread a small piece of wide plastic netting supported on poles ,over them while small and allow them to grow through this.

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Sowing advice

Sow the seeds in spring and autumn on good quality seed raising mix in pots or trays, or they can also be sown direct where they are to grow. Cover the seeds lightly with mix, and keep moist but not wet. Ideal temperature is 20 deg C. Seeds should germinate in about 7-10 days . Transplant to 8cm pots when large enough to handle, and plant out after all danger of frost has gone.