Re: malva fastigiata
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: malva fastigiata
- From: M* R* W*
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:40:24 -0500
Val,
Good idea. I was moving them pretty often. Does this plant come true from
seedlings or is a variety that needs to be propagated vegetatively? And,
what does "fastigiata" mean?
Thanks,
Mary
> Mary,
>
> leave your malva fastigiata in one place for more than one season.
> It will
> bloom; but if you're stressing it by moving it every year, it may
> end up
> sulking a season before blooming. Another thing is that these are
> very
> short lived plants. What may be coming up the next year could be a
> seedling from the original plant. I get volunteers from this malva
> in the
> most unusual places. These seedlings won't bloom the first year for
> me,
> but the following year they will grow in leaps and bounds and have
> loads of
> blooms. Again, I give it no care and it is growing in full sun in
> amended
> clay soil. I end up having no volunteers in the shadier areas of my
> yard.
>
> Give it a chance and see what happens.
>
> Val in KY
> zone 6a
>
>
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