2nd Year Maturity. Zebrina malvas promise an easy, vibrant, and low-maintenance grow to add season-long dazzle to any home, garden, or seasonal centerpieces. Zebrina malva is durable and easy to grow from seed, ideal for sunny indoor pots, planters, window boxes, or as a charming border around the flower bed. Zebrina malva seeds boast neat 36 – 48” tall uprights covered in gorgeous 1 – 2” white and burgundy “pinwheeled” blooms. Zebrina malva is native to a variety of gardens across Europe and Africa and delivers classic mallow color to your garden from spring all the way through to the frost. 500 seeds.
Growing Zebrina Malva Garden Seeds
- Taxonomy: Malva sylvestris
- Other Names: Common Mallow, Wood Mallow, Tree Mallow, Tall Mallow, High Mallow
- Seed Type: Annual (Biennial in zones 7 - 8)
- Sow Indoors or Outdoors: Zebrina malva seeds can be directly sown after the frost, but for earliest blooms, begin indoors 10 – 12 weeks before final frost date. Malva seeds will germinate in 7 – 14 days with full light and, once germinated, move to fluorescent grow light until two sets of true leaves have developed. Harden off if transplanting outside to a sunny spot or similarly warm place indoors. Even if plants die off from flowering, Zebrina malvas will likely reseed on their own for next spring.
- Days to Maturity: 2nd year maturity
- Hardiness Zone: 4 – 8
- Planting Depth: Plant 2 – 3 seeds ¼” deep
- Plant Spacing: 18”
- Growth Habit: 36 – 48” shrubby upright with a 18 – 24” spread of 2” pinwheeled blooms
- Soil Preference: Average, loamy, well-drained
- Light Preference: Full sun
- Diseases/Pests/Troubleshooting: Zebrina malva thrives in well-drained soil and can be susceptible to rust in the long summer months but, other than that, plants are very hardy performers. The genus Malva, however, is heavily susceptible to potyvirus, a disease found in aphids scattered throughout Europe and even found in California.
- Color: "Veiny" bicolored pinwheel blooms of white and deep chocolate burgundy
Zebrina malva seeds can be directly sown after the frost, but for earliest blooms, begin indoors 10 – 12 weeks before final frost. Malva seeds will germinate in 7 – 14 days with full light and, once germinated, move to fluorescent grow light until two sets of true leaves have developed. Harden off if transplanting outside to a sunny spot or similarly warm place indoors. Even if plants die off from flowering, Zebrina malvas will likely reseed on their own for next spring. Plant 2 – 3 Zebrina malva seeds ¼” deep and 18” apart in average, loamy, and well-drained soil in full sun. Zebrina malva thrives in well-drained soil and can be susceptible to rust in the long summer months but, other than that, plants are very hardy performers. The genus Malva, however, is heavily susceptible to potyvirus, a disease found in aphids scattered throughout Europe and even found in California. Zebrina malva seeds mature in their 2nd year as 36 – 48” shrubby uprights with a 18 – 24” wide spread of 2” pinwheeled blooms.
Malva sylvestris is a species of the beloved mallow genus Malva and has accrued a number of common names throughout the centuries including Cheese, High Mallow and Tall Mallow by English-speaking nations and Mauve des Bois by the French. Thomas Jefferson referred to the famous heirloom flower as "French mallow.” Malva sylvestris is also loosely referred to as Hollyhock because they are both in the Malvaceae family.