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Originally Posted by Lol[_4_]
Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring
(whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants.
But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I
think about 3 years ago.
It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every
year
ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG
Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions?
Lol |
They're perennial. But they can go straggly, they're not particularly exciting when not in flower, and they're cheap and easy to raise - hence the normal practice of growing them as annuals.
But no reason at all why you can't keep them going (especially if you have the odd one or two rather than a whole bed of them - you can see why you'd want to heave them out if you had a bed of a couple of hundred plants), especially if you trim back straggly growth after flowering.