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Mallow 'Zebrina' Seeds

Pale pink flowers boldly striped with deep magenta veins

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Description

Key benefits

  • Pale pink flowers boldly striped with deep magenta veins
  • Edible flowers for salads or a pale floral tea
  • Flowers for months, June to September
  • Thrives in poor soil, gravel and large containers
  • Packet of about 20 open-pollinated seeds

Zebrina is the mallow that stops people in their tracks: each pale pink flower is boldly striped with deep magenta veins. Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina' is a cottage-garden classic that flowers for months from early summer, holding its blooms along upright stems above rounded, lobed leaves. The flowers are edible, adding colour to salads or brewing into a pale floral tea, and the young leaves can be used like spinach. Bees and butterflies visit all summer. It does best in poorer soil, so it suits gravel, dry borders and large containers.

Sowing and growing

  • Sow indoors February to March, or outdoors April to June where it is to flower
  • Depth: 0.5 cm
  • Germination: 15 to 21 days
  • Position: full sun to partial shade, in light, well-drained, even poor soil; no feeding needed
  • Height: 60 to 90 cm; spread 45 to 60 cm
  • Flowers: June to September, often in the first year from an early sowing
  • Lifecycle: short-lived perennial, often grown as a biennial; hardy and self-seeds freely, so deadhead to control it

What you receive: a packet of about 20 open-pollinated seeds from Piccolo Seeds, with growing instructions on the back.

Zebrina mallow also comes in our Floral Teas seed collection. See more plants for pollinators and the full seed range.

How to use
  1. Sow indoors February to March, or outdoors April to June where it is to flower.
  2. Sow 0.5 cm deep.
  3. Grow in full sun to partial shade in light, well-drained soil, with no feeding.
  4. Deadhead to control self-seeding.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are mallow flowers edible?

Yes. Zebrina flowers can be scattered over salads and desserts or dried for a mild floral tea. The young leaves are eaten too, raw or cooked like spinach, and the small round seed pods have a nutty taste.

Will Zebrina mallow flower in its first year?

Usually, if sown early indoors in February or March. Later sowings build up as leafy plants and flower strongly the following summer.

Is Zebrina mallow perennial?

It is a short-lived perennial that tends to last two or three years. It self-seeds readily, so a patch usually keeps going on its own; deadhead if you want to limit seedlings.

What is your returns policy?

Changed your mind? You can return pots, gifts, accessories and other non-plant items. Email hello@growtropicals.com with your order number within 14 days of delivery, then send the item back within 14 days of telling us. You pay the return postage.

Items must come back unused and in their original condition. If an item has been used, we may reduce your refund by the value it has lost, and for used items this can be the full price.

Live plants cannot be returned because you have changed your mind, but they are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee.

If something arrives damaged, faulty or wrong, email us with your order number and photos and we will put it right at no cost to you. Full details are in our returns policy.

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