Wallflowers are striking perennials that bring a burst of gorgeous color and scent to the spring garden. Also known as ...

The first line of defence in all Brassicaceae plants are chemicals called glucosinolates, which are activated when predatory creatures nibble on the plants. More recently, wallflowers have developed a ...

Spring flowers are wonderful, but so many of them are short lived. The poet Robert Herrick wept to see daffodils ‘haste away so soon’. Tulips come and go in three weeks, but not wallflowers. Those ...

ALTHOUGH I’D pretty much sworn off perennials, I’m smitten by wallflowers. They’re one of those very few plants that simplify rather than complicate your gardening life. Just plant a slew of them, and ...

Very few plants rival tulips and daffodils for height and display, but wallflowers are one of them. I grow more and more each year because, not only do wallflowers complement tulips brilliantly, they ...

The name “wallflower” is appealing compared with “crannied in the wall,” an alternative term used by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. In his time, the graceful “flower of the wall” grew along the walls ...