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where can I get a blue mallow ground cover plant, I had one years ago and would love another,




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Do you know the botanical name for this? The only one that I'm finding is Malva sylvestris which grows much too tall for a ground cover!

1 Jun, 2011

 

You don't mean Vinca, do you?

1 Jun, 2011

 

Bamboo, thanks for reply,
but it is not vinca I am wanting.

Tugbrethil, It is a mallow, bought from a garden centre
years ago, and it grew side ways rather than up.with beautiful blue flowers with deeper blue veins.

7 Jun, 2011

 

Maybe French Mallow (Malva nicaeensis)? It is listed as an upright, short-lived perennial to 60 cm tall, but some of the pictures that I have found are prostrate. All of the other prostrate Mallows that I have found (Callirhoe, Sphaeralcea, etc.) run in the white, pink, wine-red, scarlet, and orange range.
I have also noticed that some of the Hardy Geraniums or Cranesbills (Geranium species) could easily be mistaken for mallows.

8 Jun, 2011

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