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This is a nice little perennial that I grow in my back yard flower bed. It’s a malva plant which is native to North America, but this one is a hybrid version. It’s very hardy and or reseeds itself well. I never have to worry about it no matter how cold the winter since it keeps returning each year.
I grow this lovely white with purple striped Malva Sylvestra zebrina in front of my gigantic William Baffin rose. The rose is starting to take over it’s portion of the garden bed and I fear that I’ll soon have to move a number of plants that are in front of it and to the sides of it because it’s over shadowing the poor things.
When the rose, William Baffin is in full bloom it’s flowers are a beautiful light pink and it’s well complimented with the white and purple Malva Sylvestra growing in front of it, hiding it’s bare legs.
Now, fellow Green Thumb members, I’m as guilty as many of you are of not going around and visiting all the sites lately. My excuse is that I just have not been feeling well this year at all and it’s become harder for me to make the rounds for all the memes that I participate in.
What is your excuse? I know that visiting sites has slowed down- dramatically. What’s up? What can I do to get everyone visiting more of the Green Thumb participants each week? Should we have a contest every now and then? Best photo each week? Best green thumber (person who visits the most sites and leaves the best comments?)?
You tell me. For many of us this is not our busy gardening season so we should have a little bit more time to get around to each others sites. I could understand if the majority of participants were in full gardening season, but I’m just not sure what’s going on right now …
Our Green Thumb Membership is growing each week and I’m quite proud of how it’s grown. However, since the list has 37 members I’d hope that at least half would participate and make the rounds each week.
So what’s it going to be? How can we get participation up?
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I was offline last week but made a point of visiting every site on the ring this a.m. It was a pleasant way to lose track of the ice and snow. Like a lot of others involved in GTS, I am ready for a new growing season. Will be starting some seeds in a few weeks but it’s not the same as digging outside!
This malva is particularly lovely
Oh, I love this Malva!!!! Very beautiful and as you said easy to maintain. I’d have tried to get it if I still had my garden…
Well, I think it’s the time of the year when people have much to do plus being a bit ill. I’ve read at several blogs that people had catch all sort of sickness, colds and stomach flu’s, so maybe that’s it?
And gardening for some of us with bad climate, isn’t that on the top for the moment. I’m stubborn ;-), so I keep it up in some sense, but I’ve given up the round tours this week too, mainly to anniversery celebration and being exhausted… I’ve been around every other week though but not found so much posts to comment.
For me, a contest won’t make any difference, maybe for others, but later in that case.
This is a wonderful picture of the plant! I just love the way the colors blend, and distinguish themselves. A simply beautiful plant!! Thanks for highlighting it.
This beautiful Malva has been part of my gardens for decades, blooming in both Illinois and Texas, while reseeding enough to keep the strain going.
Tricia, my references say that it’s originally from Europe, but has been growing here for centuries, so it’s probably more accurate to say it’s ‘naturalized’ rather than ‘native’.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose