General Info	Wildlife Value
Shade	Full Sun
Soil	Good, Well Drained, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Apricot/Orange Shades, Purple
Type	Evergreen, Pot Grown, Seedling
Ornamental	Fragrant, Repeat Flowering
Flowering	Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul

Erysimum × hybrida Winter Orchid

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Erysimum × hybrida Winter Orchid

Like the champion racehorse Desert Orchid, 'Winter Orchid' is a surefire winner. These short-lived perennial wallflowers start flowering early and keep up a display of sweetly scented, orange, maturing to pink-purple flowers until summer is mostly over.

Browse our other wallflowers, or all our annual bedding flowers.

Features

Colour: Starts orange, matures to pink/purple
Flowering: Jan/February to July/August.
Fragrance: Sweet
Foliage: Dark grey-green.
Height: 50-60cm.
Full sun. Well-drained, alkaline to neutral soil.
Likes a sheltered site in the North
RHS Plants for Pollinators

Growing 'Winter Orchid' Wallflower

Erysimum is a brassica, a member of the cabbage family. It is drought-tolerant, and prefers poorer soils with sharp drainage, and alkaline to neutral pH. They are ideal for gravel, Mediterranean-style, and coastal gardens.
It is quite hardy, RHS rating H5, but its foliage will suffer in windy and wet cold winters without protection: a bit of fleece in midwinter goes a long way to keep the worst of it off, or it may be more convenient to grow your wallflowers in pots and move them into shelter. But a well drained, sunny urban microclimate, shielded from the wind by buildings should be fine.

Chop plants in half after flowering. Propagate cuttings to replace plants when they are a few years old

In Your Garden Design

'Winter Orchid' has the delightful characteristic of producing flowers of many hues over its long flowering season. With compact growth, it is perfect for a pot, or place it at the front of the border alongside tulips, lavender and bright green euphorbias.

Did You Know?

Part of the series bred by the German nursery Kientzler which include 'Winter Power' (yellow), 'Winter Flame' (orange & pink/purple) and 'Winter Spice' (orange).

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) = £7.20 (inc VAT) per order.
Standard box (bareroot plants up to 1.2metres) = £11.40 (inc VAT) per order.
Large box (pots up to and including 7.5 litres) = £15.00 (inc VAT) per order.
Trees & hedging (bareroot plants and trees over 1.2 metres in height) = £19.80 (inc VAT) per order.
Orders delivered to Scotland and the Isle of Wight may incur a surcharge (calculated during checkout). This is applicable to ALL orders to these locations.
Pallets (for all orders of root balls, and large orders, a pallet price will be automatically applied at checkout) = £75.00 (inc VAT) per order.
If, for reasons of seasonality an order needs to be split, then we will charge for each delivery. If the whole order was eligible for free P&P then the second of the split orders will be delivered free of charge.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

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