Bowles Mauve

Erysimum Linifolium 'Bowles Mauve' or "wallflower", is a genus of flowering plants in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae. It includes more than 150 species, both popular garden plants and many wild forms. This particular species is a vigorous, shrubby, evergreen perennial. Leaves are gray-green, narrow and lance-shaped. Flowers are mauve and continuous (which seems to literally work the plant to death!) Be prepared to replace plants every few years. A winner in the cottage style garden and in flower from Spring until Autumn. 

Photographed in July last year at Crescent Garden, Gosport in a shady part of the gardens. For this image an aperture of f5.6 was used to get as much flower detail as possible while blurring the background out. The flower was in shadow at the time, so required a little lightening in post to balance with the light hitting the foliage of a small tree on the right of the picture.