Flower of the week: wallflowers

[callmemadam]

I love wallflowers, with their velvety petals and heavenly scent. In my old garden they lived up to their name, seeding themselves into crumbling brick walls where they became quite large, shrubby plants and semi-perennial

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[huskyteer]

The blood-red ones, and the red/yellow/oranges that I think have hybridised themselves? are my favourites.

[callmemadam]

Mine too!

[gwendraith]

I love wallflowers. We always had them in the garden of my childhood home and they remind me of my dad :)

[callmemadam]

Amazing how flowers and especially scent, can take us back. With me it's lupins. One whiff and I'm back in my childhood garden.

[gwendraith]

Yes, lupins as well and peonies and roses, mostly 'peace' :)

[debodacious]

Geraniums do it for me - specially the scented leaf varieties. And wallflowers and pinks.

[callmemadam]

For quite a lot of people, it seems to be tomato plants! They do have a very distinctive smell.