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.

Thanks

On 16/05/2011 10:56 AM, sianb wrote:
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.

Thanks




I think it's a hollyhock.

Wolf K.

"sianb" wrote ...


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.


I think it's Common Tree Mallow. Lavatera arborea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavatera_arborea
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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

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

On 16/05/2011 12:35 PM, Bob Hobden wrote:
"sianb" wrote ...


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.


I think it's Common Tree Mallow. Lavatera arborea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavatera_arborea


On second thought, I'm inclined to agree with you. I now see the shadow
of the stamen, which projects from the flower. Not like a hollyhock.

Wolf K.