Sidalcea malviflora ‘Starks Hybrids’ plants

Description

Sidalcea plants picture thanks to Jelitto Seeds https://www.jelitto.com

This  lovely plant is like a fairy hollyhock , with its beautiful,  delicate flowers on strong stems up to about 1 metre.  It forms a bushy basal plant and the flowers are produced on multiple stems . These sidalcea plants come in shades of pinks and lavender and purples , and sometimes a cream and white  as well.  They  make an excellent and long lasting cut flower  as well as performing magnificently in the garden , and this plant deserves to be better known. The plant can be grown in the mid border where they  will form a substantial clump , producing their  airy delicate flowers in profusion.  Sidalcea plants are easy to grow and don’t suffer from  the rust that  their bigger cousins. the hollyhocks often succumb to.

The plants are quite small at the moment.  they are in 9cm pots

We also have seeds of this . See  https://www.owairakaseeds.co.nz/product-category/s-flower-names-starting-with-s/