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It has since opened fully and it's a lovely flower . . .

The leaves look a little like an African Violet.... maybe that, but not fully sure.
Hope this helps!

i'm not too sure it's an african violet (I could be wrong as always!) but I kinda think it looks like mallow or malva

So far, to me, it looks like a Malva Family type..
Like a Zebrina.. or mallow maybe...

Kenny,
You snuck in on me when I was typin'!!!

I think we're on to it!

Hollyhock by any chance?

Someone suggested a species of hibiscus tonite.

There are two flowers opened and one of them suspiciously looks like the rose of sharon.

The leaves, of course, are nothing like the sharon - but the flower sure looks like it - and rose of sharon is in the hibiscus family . . .

Sooooooooooo

Lemme' see what I can find.

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Hibiscus/galleryP.html

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malope/gallery.html

If this is a hibiscus guess I'll have to bring them indoors.

So somebody said 'malva'? Close enough, maybe?

I'm going back to the links to find out if I'm supposed to take it inside for winter.

My guess is that it came to that patch by way of my infernal deadheading everywhere I go - I'm fond of emptying my pockets into places in the garden, then forgetting what I put in there.

However it got there, it's a pleasant surprise. Everybody at the building here is in awe of it - they love it.

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malope/Malope.html

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malope/Vulcan.html

http://www.dianeseeds.com/malope-trifida.html

Looks like I got this from seed - that's how you grow it outdoors - you sow it indoors. Might have been something I had simmering in those pots on the windowsill - probably put it out in Washington Point there.

Guess I'd better bring the whole works in soon. Or maybe just the spent heads and dry them.

Here's more on it . . .



Hollyhock . . . another possibility.

All those who said 'mallow' are right.

Here's a link put up by Nettie on one of the threads in Chat forum . . .

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Lavatera/galleryS.html

- and -

here's something at e-how that tells me how to look after it . . .

http://www.ehow.com/how_6758_grow-annual-mallow.html

An annual - Aw! Phooey!

But there's an upside - it blooms for much longer than other mallows.

You take the seeds in (which I've been doing), plant them in peat pots in late winter, then put them in the garden when all danger of frost has passed.

Thanks to all here for helping out, and to Netty who found that link.

WARNING TO ALL WHO LOVES THESE: if you have the luck i did, they will multiply like rabbits i was soooo smitten with them at first, now they are everywhere

That flower is a Marrow or Mallow.

Mine are still blooming here.

dodge