Lavatera acerifolia (Pink Maple-leafed Canary Shrub Mallow)
150 (220)cm, Pink Maple-leafed Canary Shrub Mallow is a perennial maple-leafed species native of all western islands, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote (Lavatera acerifolia var. hariensis), ...
Lavatera thuringiaca Malvaceae
Tree Lavatera lah-va-TEE-ra
Broadleaf woody subshrub, to 8 ft (1.8 m) tall. Leaves simple, alternate, 3-5 lobed, to 9 × 9 cm. Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves or in loose terminal racemes, about 7 cm across.
Lavatera maritima (Tree mallow) - This is a large mounding evergreen fast growing shrub that grows to 6-8 feet tall and 8-12 feet wide. The gray-green leaves are palmately lobed.
Lavatera assurgentiflora
( Assurgentiflora Lavatera )
Lavatera, depending on the species, may be either a perennial, annual, or biennial.
Lavatera clementii cultivars are actually hybrids of L. olbia & L. thuringiaca. They are for the most part sterile hybrids. The hybrids are hardier than L. olbia, but not quite as hardy as L. thuringiaca.
Lavatera
Two Lavatera round out the mallow family. The tree mallow (L. olbia) looks more like a small shrub than a perennial, but comes back from its base each spring - with any luck.
Lavatera trimestris
Plants of Home and Garden
Annual grown from seed started indoors 4 weeks before setting out, sown shallowly at 70F/21C; may also be started directly outside; easily grown in either fashion.
Lavatera trimestris 'Pink Beauty' Lavatera 'Pink Beauty'
annual, easy care
created by ladybug
zones: 3a thru 10b ...
Lavatera trimestris 'Ruby Regis'
Lavatera is one of those plants that people see and like immediately, says southern California horticulturist Cristin Fusano, referring to the shrubby perennial Lavatera thuringiaca.
Lavatera maritima hort is a soft-branched shrub growing to up to 6 ft in height, but more usually to 3-4 ft.
The leaves are tomentose, simple, sub-orbicular, palmately 5-lobed and crenate. Flowers almost like a Hibiscus.
Lavatera arborea L.
Common Names
bush mallow, Cornish tree mallow, Irish toilet paper, lavatera, tree mallow, tree-mallow, velvet tree -mallow ...
Botanical: Lavatera arborea
---Part Used---Herb.
The velvety leaves of the Sea Tree Mallow, a tall, handsome plant growing 5 or 6 feet high, on sea cliffs, on many parts of the coast, are used for sprains, ...
Tree mallow, Lavatera arborea; Lavatera trimestris
True daisy, Bellis perennis
Trumpet flower, Datura metal ...
Tree Mallow (Lavatera)
For the most part vigorous and somewhat coarse annuals, biennials, and perennials, few of great value in the garden. The most useful is L. trimestris, a beautiful S.
Herb Tree-Mallow [English]: Lavatera trimestris
Herb Trinit [English]: Viola tricolor
Herb's Spleenwort [English]: Asplenium herb-wagneri
Herb's White Canna Lily [English]: Canna x generalis 'Herb's White' ...
Maritima Lavatera (Lavatera bicolor)
Maritime Ceanothus (Ceanothus maritimus 'Frosty Dawn')
Maritime Ceanothus (Ceanothus maritimus)
Marjoram (Origanum 'Kent Beauty')
Marjoram (Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen') ...
Lavatera trimestris (mallow): Cup-shaped flowers of pink or white in summer.
Cerinthe major var. purpurascens: Deep purple bell-shaped flowers held in a cluster of dark blue bracts in summer; blue-green foliage.
Lavatera
Leptospermum
Leucothoe - rarely, and if so, just to shape - in early spring
Leycesteria
Ligustrum
Lilac (Syringa)- will tolerate hard renovation pruning also - if required.
Goes well with: Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud', Ceanothus x delileanus 'Topaze', Lavatera 'Barnsley', Verbena bonariensis, Perovskia 'Blue Spire,' Ruta graveolens, Dianthus caryophyllus, Stachys officinalis.
Similar Plants: ...
Lavatera alba.
Malope grandiflora alba.
Matthiola (Stocks), Cut and Come Again; Dresden Perpetual; Giant Perfection; White Pearl.
Mirabilis longiflora alba.
Nigella.
Phlox, Dwarf Snowball; Leopoldii.
Poppies, Flag of Truce; Shirley; The Mikado.
Such whorled or verticillate bracts generally remain separate (polyphyllous), but may be united by cohesion (gamophyllous), as in many species of Bupleurum and in Lavatera.
The stiff-textured, orange flowers and copious watery nectar are characteristic of bird-pollinated flowers and birds such as tits and finches have been observed visiting the flowers. Digitalis (Isoplexis) species, Lavatera phoenicea and Lotus ...
 See also: Mallow, Hibiscus, Pink, Green, Rose
  
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