(Barnsley Baby Mallow, Mallow)

This free blooming, compact perennial tree mallow is a perfect fit for small gardens. In summer it becomes covered with lovely white mallow flowers with purple-red centers. Though the names suggests it, this cultivar is not derived from the popular Rosemary Verey selection, ‘Barnsley.’It was selected by Wilko Karmelk of The Netherlands from open pollinated seed parents of unknown origin.

This shrubby herbaceous plant has three lobed leaves that are soft and fuzzy. In the heat of summer, ‘Barnsley...

(Barnsley Mallow, Mallow)

This romantic shrubby perennial of English cottage gardens is a busy version of the American hollyhock. It was raised by famed garden maker, Rosemary Verey, who introduced it in 1986, named for her Barnsley Gardens in England. 'Barnsley' descends from crosses of little known Lavatera olbiaLavatera thuringiaca. It is a large herbaceous perennial bearing many branches in a starburst pattern to create a rounded form overall. Stems and heart shaped leaves...

(Mallow, Sweet Dreams Mallow)

The pastel ‘Sweet Dreams’ has a romantic, Old World look. This compact, bushy, mallow was developed in Belgium from a crosses between Lavatera olbiaLavatera thuringiaca. It is an herbaceous perennial with a rounded overall form and soft, lobed leaves.

In the heat of summer, 'Sweet Dreams' becomes covered with five-petaled, hibiscus-like flowers of pale lavender-pink. The petals are notched at the tips and do not overlap. It is very showy at its peak of flower in midsummer...

(Abutilon, Indian Mallow)

Indian mallow is an ever-blooming shrub that bears numerous small, gold, orange or salmon flowers with red veins. The hibiscus-like flowers are colorful and nod gracefully on the open branches of this evergreen to semi-evergreen Brazilian shrub. Its leaves are maple-like, with rounded lobes and soft medium green to dark green. When young, Indian mallow has an upright habit and becomes more rounded as it ages.

This easy to cultivate plant grows best in sites with partial sun and rich, well-drained...

(Indian Mallow, Thompson's Flowering Maple)

This is one of the most popular flowering maples in cultivation. It is best known for its green maple-like leaves that are speckled with yellow. This ever-blooming, evergreen shrub is commonly grown as a bedding plant in temperate zones and also boasts lovely hibiscus-like flowers of salmon orange. ‘Thompsonii’ attains a more upright form than the parent species, which hails from Brazil.

This easy to cultivate plant grows best in sites with partial sun and rich, well-drained soil with even moisture....

(Cape African Queen, Cape Mallow)

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of small pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They support fuzzy leaves that are three-lobed, oblong and alternate on the stem. The flowers look a bit like Rose-of-Sharon blooms. They are five-petaled, funnel-shaped and medium to deep red with a dark eye and venation.

Plant Cape mallow in full...

(South African Mallow)

South African mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They support fuzzy leaves that are three-lobed, oblong and alternate on the stem. The flowers look a bit like Rose-of-Sharon blooms. They are five-petaled, funnel-shaped and soft pink with purple veins.

Plant South African mallow in full sun...

(Hybrid Cape Mallow, Tara's Pink Hybrid Cape Mallow)

Overall, the hybrid Anisodontea ‘Tara’s Pink’ is larger and bushier than most, and its pink flowers are larger than those of the two most commonly cultivated species, Anisodontea capensis or Anisodontea x hypomadarum.

Cape mallow is an evergreen hybrid shrub with an informal habit. It bears a profusion of pretty flowers from spring until frost or all year round in warm climates.

Its stems are slender, upright, green or purple and covered with dense hairs. They...

(Corkwood, Seacoast Mallow)

Seacoast mallow, or sea hibiscus, is a vigorous tropical, evergreen tree with large leaves and delicate color-changing yellow flowers. Although now growing all across the tropics, its original native range is perhaps southern Asia. The glossy, medium to dark green leaves densely cover the branches. Anytime from spring to fall, light yellow, papery flowers with a maroon eye appear above or among the leaves. The blossoms open at dawn, by noon are a golden yellow, and are golden orange by sunset before...

(Hybrid Hardy Hibiscus)

Compact, small-sized and extremely hardy, 'Crown Jewels' is an excellent hibiscus that is the result of extensive hybridization. This semi-woody perennial has dark green, deeply three-to-five lobed leaves that look somewhat like a Japanese maple or cannibis plant. This is a long-blooming plant that flowers from midsummer to frost, longer if in a subtropical garden. The circus-appropriate flowers are bicolored, with broad petals that gradate from white to bright pink from one side to the other. The...