Principal colors can vary, as images online show some looking rather lavender. Online resources use terms such as cerise, magenta and fuchsia to describe the varied color scheme. If we had a pool and insisted on native plants, I’d go wild with Lavatera assurgentiflora. A water fountain sits between the mallow and the philodendron. Try doing that with sages or coffeeberry bushes - “bad contrast” is my presumptive conclusion. It shares space in a bed with an inherited cut-leaf philodendron ( Philodendron bipinnatifidum).
My malva rosa is at 4 1/2 feet each way a year after going into the ground at 1 gallon.
#Purple tree mallow free#
Feel free to prune or shape it - it’s for the plant’s own good. It can be treated as a specimen minitree for a border. Island tree mallow can reach 10 feet to 12 feet tall and wide. The foundation’s namesake introduced the plant into cultivation in California. It reports that the plant is native to the San Clemente and Catalina islands and is naturalized in Central and Southern California. Even the Theodore Payne Foundation drops a tropical reference on its website’s tree mallow rundown, specifically about the hibiscuslike flowers. This might blow up your whole concept of Golden State plants, but island tree mallow (aka malva rosa) can provide a California-style tropical look to a border or small garden. (OK, that’s a little weird.) No thorns with this one - just knockout rose-pink flowers and green maplelike leaves. You’d hug an island tree mallow before a rose bush or one of those ubiquitous pygmy date palms. We can look to the Channel Islands for an exception, Lavatera assurgentiflora. If they were sponges, they’d be the rough green side, not the forgiving yellow part. Some belong to Spartan-sounding “scrub” communities. California native flora isn’t considered the cuddliest group of plants, right? These are tough and scratchy types, like Grandma’s old blankets.
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