QUESTION: My garden center has a plant called a mallow. It looks like a hibiscus. Is this an annual or perennial? What care does it need? ANSWER: The plant is both a mallow and a hibiscus. The large ...

This native member of the mallow family is most often seen growing in brackish marshes, but it makes an excellent garden plant if given good fertile soil rich in organic matter with a little sand ...

We’ve prepared the seedbed by either tilling or by no-till using herbicides (glyphosate and gramoxone) to kill the weeds. Where we have non-saline soil, weeds are a problem since we do not have ...

Hibiscus belongs to the mallow family along with its cousins, althea, cotton, hollyhock, okra and Turk’s cap. One group within the genus Hibiscus immediately attracts attention with the size of each ...

Driving by Luten Avenue along Hylan Boulevard at this time of the year brings back memories of my childhood when I view the wetlands full of the pink and white flowers of the swamp mallow plant. In ...