I have them - an orange-yellow that smells unbelievably spicy and delicious. In fact, there is a bouquet sitting right in front of me on my desk at this very minute. I picked them last night because I feared the hard freeze would spoil them. The smell is pure heaven. I have them in two locations. I hope to get more of them going all over my garden.

I can send you some seeds later this summer.
~ Annie

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Yes I have grown wallflowers both yellow and orange. For some reason I pulled them all out a few years ago. I got a pack of orange seeds this year to sow. They are fragrant. I have never seen those other colours.

Sierra

I love them too! I just have one right now. Its called 'Pastel Patchwork' and has several colors. I want to get a couple more Wallflowers this year. I used to have a nice oragne one, but it died. I think they are short lived in general, so I may take a few cuttings this year just to be on the safe side!
CMK

The ones I had 10 years ago had no noticeable fragrance. They were the cerise color, soft yellow and light orange. They died out after three years. They were pretty, but I was disappointed that they had no fragrance.

The ones I have now came in bottles of wildflower seed mix I got last year as a gift. They came from WalMart. They cost $2 a bottle. At the end of summer, there were 4 bottles of them left, so I bought them all...for $2! What a deal! The Wallflowers are VERY fragrant and I love the bright orange color.
~Annie

Well... I went looking for seed, seems it's pretty scarce at least on the seed racks I perused. Not to be giving up, by now I'm on a mission, I found what I was looking for on line at Chiltern Seeds. I ordered one that has been around for centuries often seen on castle walls (orangey), a pastel mix, and another purplish one all fragrant. There were 1 or 2 more but thought I'd see how these turned out before ordering more..... and it's Erysimum not Erisimum as I mentioned earlier, slight typo there. I had one called 'Ems' and another 'Constant Cheer' very fragrant but they finally petered out on me. Yeah I know I should have taken cuttings.
Thanks for the offer Annie, we'll do a swap.

Annette

The smell of wallflowers is very evocative for me. My grandfather always grew them. They are usually grown as biennials here and bedded out in autumn to overwinter for spring flowers. But they are perennial in favoured places and like to grow on seacliffs and old ruins - they love sharp drainage and lime. Here are some seen on my walk to work last week.

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Oh Flora, you've got me drooling on the keyboard. There's nothing that comes close to their delicious scent.

Annette

How lovely are they!!!! And a scent too??? Wowser. So, even though a biennial, they don't self seed?? Hmmm....another thing for me to go hunting for!!!! lol.

Nancy.

Annette, AK's, WalMart and the dollar store carry these seeds....but just the regular orange one. Not the fancy colours....sometimes you can get the yellow ones. Chiltern seeds you say....

Nancy, yes they are biennial or in warmer climates a short lived perennial. They are known to self seed like crazy....which might be why I yanked them out of my garden. lol I can't remember why.....hmmmm.

Sierra

jkom showed a beautiful one in her slideshow (on the Gallery). It had variegated leaves and beautiful blue-purple flowers. I really want to get that one!
CMK

I planted a few wallflowers in one of my gardens. Last year it bloomed its little heart out. This year the plants were everywhere, but not much bloom. I was just contemplating pulling out lots of the plants.

-Sharon

Sharon, those seedlings should bloom next year for you. They usually are not first year bloomers. You could transplant them into another area for blooms next year.

I'm not sure anyone just has one wallflower. lol!!!

Sierra

Wow, flora.
That photo looks like a painting!
Beautiful!
~Annie

When I had my gravel hill garden, I would take cuttings of my burnt orange, mahogany, blood red and purple wall flowers stick them in the garden here and there... most would root and spring was beautiful.

Here in my moist loamy woodland clearing hill garden, the many that I moved have dwindled to none this year the garden's 4th yr.

I was nostalgic for them this week... but I've moved on. Though I am thinking of ordering some half inch minus as mulch for my long border.

Sierra, thanks for the info. I will give my wallflowers a reprieve from the horrible fate atop the compost pile that was their certain immediate future. *casting warning eye toward the flowerless plants* :)

-Sharon