Erysimum Bowles Mauve

A Cottage Garden Classic — Long-Flowering and Wonderfully Fragrant

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' is one of the most reliable and rewarding perennial wallflowers you can grow. Producing a near-continuous display of rich mauve-purple blooms from late winter right through to early summer — and often beyond — it's a true workhorse of the cottage garden border. Its upright, bushy habit and grey-green foliage make it as attractive out of flower as in it.

Why You'll Love It

• 🌸 Exceptionally long flowering season — blooms for months, not weeks
• 🦋 Irresistible to pollinators — bees and butterflies flock to it
• 🌿 Evergreen foliage — attractive grey-green leaves year-round
• ✂️ Great for cutting — brings colour and fragrance indoors
• 🌞 Drought tolerant once established — low maintenance and easy to grow

Growing Tips

Plant in a sunny, open position in well-drained soil — it thrives in poor, dry conditions and is perfect for gravel gardens, raised beds, and sunny borders. Avoid heavy, waterlogged soils. Ideal for the front or middle of a cottage garden border, or as a structural plant in a mixed planting scheme.

Care

Trim lightly after flowering to keep the plant compact and encourage further blooms. Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' is a short-lived perennial, so it's worth taking cuttings every couple of years to keep a fresh supply going. Hardy in most UK conditions.