Your Authors Garden Tree-Mallow shown in the first set of photos only lasted 3 or 4 seasons before dying. Luckily, he took some photos before it disappeared.

Easily mistaken for : Tree Mallow (Malva arborea), a biennial or perennial shrub with pink (or purple) flowers which have a central indigo splodge with outward streaks, where the petals have little or no gaps between them and which grows slightly taller at 3m and only likes to grow near the sea, usually quite close to it, although it can be found inland and there might be mistaken for Garden Tree-Mallow. The leaves of Tree Mallow are 5 to 7-lobed and palmate whereas those of Garden Tree-Mallow are only 3 to 5-lobed, with the central lobe extended.

Some similarities to : Lesser Tree-mallow (Malva pseudolavatera) but that has paler petals that are lilac and which, like Tree Mallow also inhabits rough ground near the sea (unlike Garden Tree-Mallow which avoids the coast). Lesser Tree-mallow is a lot rarer occurring in the Scilly and Channel Islands.