Apricot Desert Mallow
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Sphaeralcea ambigua
This delightful perennial, with its shrubby and fuzzy appearance, grows to a lovely height of 3-5 feet. It bursts forth with numerous large, apricot-orange flowers that create enchanting wand-like clusters at the tips of its gently sprawling, wide-ranging stems. The broad leaves are lobed, featuring rounded, scalloped edges. You’ll notice this grayish plant often boasts many limbs adorned with bright orange-red flowers, gracefully positioned on erect branches.
As one of the largest-flowered and most drought-tolerant varieties of Globe-mallow, it puts on a spectacular show in the warm, low southwestern deserts, especially during wet years. Some forms even surprise us with petals that are a lovely pale, purplish-pink. It is butterfly host plant to the Texas Powdered-Skipper and Common Streaky Skipper.
Height: 3’-5’
Spread: 2’-4’
Bloom: February-November
Light: Full Sun
Water: Medium
Zone: 6-9
Origin: Southwestern U.S.
Spring Shipping:
Orders are shipped within 10-15 business days. We will email you if there are expected delays.
When you order plants from our nursery, you can expect them to arrive in the best possible condition. Our team carefully packs each order using sturdy, biodegradable packaging materials.
Your plants' appearance may vary depending on the season and their current growth stage. We may cut back the leafy growth of some plants to prepare them for shipment and transplanting.
5 Gallon and Up: Any plant purchased to ship over 5 Gallons will be shipped bare root. This means we will remove the plant from its original pot, remove the soil surrounding the roots, and wrap the roots with a biodegradable plastic bag. This reduces weight and the likelihood of damage during shipping.
Once your plants arrive, it is essential to plant them as soon as possible. This will help them rebound and thrive. If you cannot plant immediately, water regularly and keep the roots off heat-conducting surfaces.
Newly transplanted plants often require more water until their roots are well established. Plan to water them 1-3 times weekly for the first few months.
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 24 reviews.
Pretty tall for four inch pot. Mallow always gets stress after transplanting and then grows fast. Very happy with it.
It's nice to see orange flowers on a plant.
As always healthy plants
The plant was sort of worse for ware when ups came. I gave it a drink and a pot and it looks 100% better. Waiting for ot to grow a bit before putting in ground
Plants arrived in great shape and packed with lots of care. Great communication with seller. I am very pleased with my purchase.
Not sure what went wrong Not looking very good
The plant was packaged with care. They were very nice and gave me a size up since what I wanted was out of stock. Can’t wait to see it bloom!!!
The plants arrived quickly and in excellent condition. Thank you!
Super quick delivery and really healthy plants. Thank you!
Very nice company and great service! My plants arrived alive even after a lengthy delay in shipping and was sent a beautiful thank you card! Let's show this small business some love, people! 🫶💞
Like that I can get native plants at this nursery and that they are healthy, thriving plants.
plants looked good.
Can't wait for it to bloom!
My desert mallow plant arrived promptly and quite carefully wrapped for the shipping process. Great care was taken with the packaging to ensure that my plant arrived intact and healthy. I would definitely order again knowing that my plant(s) would be well protected during shipping. The overall quality of the plant was excellent, it took to our conditions quite well and is thriving.
Plants showed up carefully packed and very healthy!
Item just as represented.
Love the size of the plant, my only issue is that the packaging on the two boxes I received was not well done. At some point, everything in both boxes ended up upside down and half of the plants were out of their pots. I repotted them and gave them a good dose of root stimulator and they are now planted and seem to be recovering.
very healthy plant
Unfortunately both plants died.
Plant came in pot in great shape and well hydrated. Weather has not allowed me to plant it yet
Half dead out of the bucket it looked more like a seedling stuffed in a 1 gallon bucket yellowed on the leaves, never seen anything pack like. Plant was only 3 inches tall and the stem can't even call it and they shipped it through the mail so it was thrown all around with dirt all inside. The box plant was out of the 1 gallon and it was stuffed in my mailbox. I will never use this company again. I requested a refund will see if I get it.
The Globemallows arrived in beautiful condition! Such great care in your packaging of plants, it is appreciated! My Globemallows were beautiful and in wonderful condition! These beautiful natives will make a great addition to my native garden in Las Vegas!
Store owner replied: Hi Kelley, thank you for taking the time to leave us feedback. We love the Desert Mallow and are so happy to hear that they arrived in such good condition. We appreciate your business and hope they you shop with again in the future. Oliver Native Gardeners
Arrived in great shape. Great packaging. Will order again.
This plant is a gift and it was perfect.
