posted 5 years ago
Hi G.
I have always known it as Malva sylvestris, or French Mallow. I love it, and all hosts for the reproductive cycles of predatory insects. The other ones I see that simply swarm with predatory insects in-season are borage, lovage, and (though it's invasive) Japanese knotweed, which I wouldn't introduce, but will clear mechanically just before seeds form just to keep the predatory species around.
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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