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Patty S
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Something I didn't plant? [Solved] Malva Zebrina
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Jul 06, 2008, 07:57:09 PM »
I have a plant coming up in this bed, to the left of the Cosmos & Dahlias (& behind the Chives) & I'm not sure what it is.
It sorta looks like a Hollyhock to me, but I didn't plant any of those & the one I have in my veggie garden (that the birds planted 2 years ago) hasn't flowered yet, so there's no way a seed could have blown over from there.
(The Hollyhock they planted grew really slow, but this plant has gotten as big in 2 months, as the Hollyhock did in a whole year.)
I'm wondering if anything else has leaves like that.
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Triss
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Re: Something I didn't plant?
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Jul 06, 2008, 08:07:19 PM »
Could you have planted Malva Zebrina? Looks a lot like and and they are very similar to hollyhock but grow a lot faster.
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Patty S
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Re: Something I didn't plant?
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Jul 06, 2008, 08:16:35 PM »
I
did
have Malva Zebrina in that bed last year... seeds that Jimmy sent me, & I loved them, but they wound up taking up too much space, so I planted some seeds in front, next to the road, this year.
I'll just bet that when I collected the seeds last year, I didn't get all of them!
Gosh! Imagine that!
I'll take my camera out there & take a pic of the Malva Zebrina, when I turn off my sprinkler... meanwhile, I think you've solved this one.
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Re: Something I didn't plant?
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Jul 06, 2008, 08:53:10 PM »
Well once they seed, they sure seed a LOT. Here is a picture of mine that I just took. It is back up against the wall so it does not take up too much space. I want to plant some hollyhock along with this one eventually.
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Patty S
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Re: Something I didn't plant?
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Jul 07, 2008, 12:31:32 AM »
Jimmy told me that too, & that's why I tried to harvest those seeds early last year... I didn't realize they'd get so big, & didn't want that bed full of them again this year, cuz I have so many other things growing there.
Well, the pic I took turned out too fuzzy, but I didn't need it anyway, cuz I found 2 places where I posted pics of my Malva Zebrina last year. One is of
last year's seedling
, & the other one is BG's
county fair entree
.
Good eye, Triss!
That's
exactly
what I didn't plant in that bed this year! If I'd have just slowed down & thought about what I had there last year, I could have looked them up here & wouldn't have had to ask!
Oops! I just found pics that Jimmy & I both posted, in his
Zabrina white and purple
topic last year.
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Re: Something I didn't plant? [Solved] Malva Zebrina
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Jul 07, 2008, 11:25:02 AM »
Good deal Patty. Looks like yours are the same color as mine, must have gotten mine from Jimmy as well. I had some darker ones also but apparently they did not come up again this year. Bummer cuz they were pretty also.
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Patty S
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Re: Something I didn't plant? [Solved] Malva Zebrina
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Jul 07, 2008, 01:31:16 PM »
I didn't know that they came in other colors... Jimmy introduced them to me, & I haven't learned much about them at all. Now that I've Googled them, I see that they come in several colors; pinks, purples & various shades of yellows, as deep as beige.
Gotta keep an eye out for seeds of those other colors, I guess, cuz it'd be cool to have them all.
When I was doing my early morning walk-around today, I noticed
lots
of them, coming up in the field, among the Coreopsis, Sunflowers & Calendulas... & one even has a flower on it already!
(I had forgotten that they were among the 22 things I planted out there.)
I'll let those go to seed there, & hope they'll come back next year, although I'm not sure how draught tolerant they are.
I'm watering my field row twice a day this year, but I don't know that I'll be so diligent next year, as my field flowers are just a novelty for now & that project might not turn into anything more than a passing fancy.
I did read that Malva Zebrina is a cousin to the Hollyhock & Mallow, & I know that deer like Hollyhocks.
We'll just see what happens.
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