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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?
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
