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Originally Posted by sianb
I live in London and have a small patio garden. This year a large plant grew in one of the pots which I am assuming is a weed. Purple flowers have just started blooming on it and I was just curious to what this plant is.
It quite tall, and has large leaves, and purple flowers with five heart shaped petal leaves (please see photograph)
Any help would be appreciated.
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It's a Malva Sylvestris of some sort, the common name is 'mallow'.
We have the same 'weed' in our garden, but they are really pretty sometimes so we leave a few.
If you do want to keep them, make sure they are near to the middle back of the border, as they can grow to almost 6 feet sometimes!!
Malva sylvestris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia