English wallflowers are typically grown as annuals or biennials.  I started these plants about six years ago, but they don’t seem to mind the Seattle winters and they have survived this entire time, though they look more and more sad with weaker flowering each year.  They were quite beautiful in their first two years, with bright yellow, orange and reddish-mauve blooms.

 

My future plans for these plants will be to take some tip cuttings from them in early spring to see if I can refresh them that way.  It looks like there is a lot of good cutting material there, but I have no idea if the resulting plants will be fresh or just as sad as the mother plants.