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Common Mallow- Malva sylvestris is the perfect wildflower plant for adding of bright splash of pink to a summer flowering meadow. It is well suited to all wide variety of soils, but grows best on well-drained ground in full sun. Common Mallow has showy flowers that grow in dense clusters and large ivy-shaped leaves. The pink blooms appear from June to September, and blend particularly well with other meadow plants. In the wildflower garden Common Mallow can be used in sunny flower borders or grown against a wall. Common Mallow plants look best grown alongside other summer flowering wildflowers such as Oxeye daisy, Meadow cranesbill, Knapweed, Scabious, and Birdsfoot trefoil.


How to grow Common Mallow seeds:
Common Mallow seeds can either be sown into trays of compost in the spring or autumn. The seedlings can then be pricked out and grown on, for planting out later in the year.


To buy Common Mallow seeds
To purchase Common Mallow seeds, please select a quantity above and click add to cart. To ensure the best chance of success, we sell all of our wildflower seeds by weight, which ensures each wildflower seed packet contains a good quantity of seeds. The recommended sowing rate is 1 gram per square metre. All of our Wildflower seed packets contain seeds of Native British provenance.

Summary:
type - perennial,
colour - Pink,
height - 30 to 90cms,
flowering months - June, July, August, September
habitat - Dry Grassland (clay, loam), Chalk and Limestone Grassland,