With Lavatera Mont Blanc you will have superb large white trumpet blooms: understated elegance to light up your garden. They are fabulous in almost any garden style including your vegetable garden. A great choice for attracting bees and other pollinating insects, recognised by the RHS for this fact. They are also a lovely long-stemmed cut-flower. You will be amazed by how much each plant can flower until the autumn frosts. And they will even show up by moonlight – plant some by your seating for some evening magic.
🌸 Flowering: July - October
📏 Height: to 60cm
🌿 Annual (short lived perennial, grow as annual)
SOW: either over the winter sow 2mm deep in pots, cover with a poly bag or place in a propagator at 20-21C. Germination can take 3 weeks. Grow on seedlings, potting on if necessary, until hardening off and planting out when frost danger is over. OR sow in pots with protection from March to May or direct sow in April/May at 5-10mm deep.
GROW: they prefer well drained soil in full sun. Dig a generous hole, adding compost for drainage. Plants need 30-70cm spacing. Deadheading will encourage even more beautiful blooms. This is a short-lived perennial that is best grown as an annual.
📌USES
Wildlife-friendly
• Extremely attractive to bees
• Other pollinators also benefit from this plant, creating a healthier garden ecosystem.
Edible
• Fresh flowers can be added to salads
• Mallow leaves can be used as a thickener in soups and stews – leaves can be hairy so are best picked young & cooked and used in small amounts.
In the garden
• Super cut flower, fabulous in bunches
• As a quick gap filler
• Grow as a low temporary hedge
• Essential in a ‘white’ garden
• At the foot of climbing beans to help attract pollinators.
Suits
• Sunny borders and mixed flowerbeds
• Cottage style and informal planting
• Containers & patio planting
• Urban and courtyard planting
• Cutting garden
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