Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller Despite the fern-like delicacy

Despite the fern-like delicacy

The argument continues

For the gardener with a damp corner and a taste for the rare

Every nursery keeps a few mysteries

Native to a land of mild winters and hot

Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller Despite the fern-like delicacyThis is the uncommon pink flowered Turk's cap, a soft toned form of the familiar scarlet Malvaviscus arboreus, a subtropical relative of the hibiscus in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The flowers carry the same charming quirk as the red kind: two to three inches long, they never open flat like a hibiscus but stay furled in a little turban, glowing here in clear pink rather than red. Turk's cap is herbaceous at the cold edge of the range and a shrubby