Tree mallow’s purple flowers produce large amounts of seeds and, where the species is invasive, a huge seed bank guarantees long-term persistence. That makes keeping the plant at bay to save puffins’ ...

Dear Helen: Can you help identify a plant that grows wild on my property? It grows to around two metres tall, with purple blooms accented in dark stripes. N.N. I think your flowers are Malva ...

Joe and I spent the other afternoon moving dirt and reshaping the malva rosa by the garage, to allow some sun on the pile we were making. This isn’t the first time we’ve radically reshaped the thing, ...

Q:Our tree mallow, which we have had for years, is being damaged by something we haven't seen before. From a distance, it looks like rust, but up close it appears to be a psyllid insect or a mite. We ...

M.B.: Try getting snippy with it. Lavatera, or tree mallow, is an easy-to-grow, shrubby perennial, but it can be short-lived and die out after three or four years. I have found that pruning in the ...

Sometimes we gardeners do indeed need to reinvent the wheel. Aided by the Internet, we have access to a dizzying array of flowering plants. Our mild Mediterranean climate, allowing many of us to grow ...

The mallow plant family (Malvaceae) is easy to identify. The flowers have five separate petals. The distinguishing characteristic of the flower is the central column of united reproductive parts ...

The birds were ousted from Fidra, in the Firth of Forth, because of an invasive plant grown as a substitute for toilet paper in the 1700s. The tree mallow spread rapidly and blocked the nesting ...

FOR years armies of volunteers have battled a prolific alien plant which threatens the survival of one of Scotland’s best-loved birds. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way ...

If you’re in the market for a tree or shrubs, consider California natives for a number of reasons. While we’ve received nearly two inches of rain this fall, Southern California is still in an extreme ...

California native flora isn’t considered the cuddliest group of plants, right? These are tough and scratchy types, like Grandma’s old blankets. Some belong to Spartan-sounding “scrub” communities. If ...