Lavatera, or tree mallow, is a handy quick-growing shrub - ideal when you need bulk to fill a gap fast.
Lavatera grows fast, so is great for plugging the gaps in your borders
Lavatera grows fast is great for plugging gaps in your borders
Here are some of my favourites: Cistus, or rock rose, is a beauty of a Mediterranean evergreen shrub which is covered in June and July with beautiful blossoms that look like they have been hand-created using
Lavatera grows fast so is great for plugging the gaps in your borders crumpled paper tissue.
Lavatera, below, grows fast so is great for plugging the gaps in your borders
| Summer-flowering shrubs, such as fuchsia, spiraea, perovskia,
lavatera, buddleja and deciduous ceanothus (for example, Gloire de Versailles) usually flower on new growth so a good chop now will stimulate plenty of this.
A superb addition to the garden,
Lavatera Barnsley Baby produces masses of soft pink, funnel-shaped flowers from July through to October.
| Summer-flowering shrubs, such as fuchsia, spiraea, perovskia,
lavatera, buddleja, and deciduous ceanothus (eg Gloire de Versailles) usually flower on new growth, so a good chop now will stimulate this.
| SUMMER-FLOWERING shrubs, such as fuchsia, spiraea, perovskia,
lavatera, buddleja, and deciduous ceanothus usually flower on new growth, so a good chop now will stimulate this.
| PRUNE summerflowering deciduous shrubs such as Buddleja davidii, hardy fuchsias and
lavatera - this will not effect their flowering as they flower on new wood.
Send your questions to gardening@people.co.uk QTHE wind has broken several branches on my
lavatera bush.
Protease inhibitors were extracted from the seeds of
Lavatera cashmeriana Camb by ammonium sulphate precipitation and purified by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and Sephadex G-100 column.
Lavatera - widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers