Greek Mallow

Greek Mallow (Sidalcea) - A group of graceful herbs from North West America, with showy white, pink, or purple flowers in long erect spikes like a miniature Hollyhock. Those in cultivation are perennials, but do best if frequently renewed from seed sown as soon as ripe, the seedlings being wintered in a frame, and planted out in spring. In sheltered places and in warm soils these plants will pass the winter in the open, but they prove a little tender in many places, and the autumn-sown plants bloom earlier and more finely than those raised in heat early in the year. The Sidalceas are fast becoming better known, and, being profuse in flower, excellent for cutting and of the easiest culture. The best kinds are S. candida, with pretty white flowers an inch across, on tall stems of 2 to 3 feet—a showy plant when freely grouped. Rosy Gem is identical with this, save in its fine rosy color. S. malvaeflora is of stout erect growth and fine habit, with deep rosy-purple flowers nearly 2 inches across when fully expanded. A form of this, S. Listeri, is charming, with spikes of soft rosy flowers beautifully fringed at the edges. Others are atro-purpurea, with deep purple spikes, and Murrayana, a dwarf plant, in which the flowers are a deep rose-crimson. S. oregana has smaller rosy flowers; S. incarnata, slender and rigid red spikes; while in S. spicata they are rosy-purple.

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