Help what plant/shrub is this!

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• eithne.gm.56 Posts: 10

  July 2021

  Hi Songbird-1, that looks like a hit.  
  Thanks again.
  Eithne

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• eithne.gm.56 Posts: 10

  July 2021

  Hi Songbird-1 
  Yes you are right it's Lavatera, there are several varieties.
  Thanks again.
  Eithne

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2021 edited July 2021

  Another plant that might be is Alcea ficifolia… the Fig-leaved hollyhock aka Antwerp or Siberian hollyhock. 

  Sometimes included in mixtures of seeds for pollinators s/ bees etc. 

  
  

  https://www.gardenloversclub.com/ornamental/flowers/hollyhock/varieties/
  

  
  

  More resistant to rust than more usually seen varieties. 

  
  

  Similar to and related to lavatera http://alcatrazgardens.org/blog/index.php/2013/11/mallow-versus-hollyhock/

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• eithne.gm.56 Posts: 10

  July 2021

  Thanks Dovefromabove,
  There are so many varieties, for which I didn't realise, I'm going to have a job deciding on which ones to get for my garden.
  Thanks again,
  Eithne

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