The campfire has certainly gone through some beautiful transformation in the past three years. First there was Campfire ...

MARSH MALLOW FLOWERS Even if you don't become enthusiastic for home-made marshmallow candy, you might still want to grow marsh mallow plants for their flowers.

Campfire Red Ember is known botanically as Bidens ferulifolia and has its roots out west in Arizona. It will grow 10 inches ...

The marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis) looks a lot like hollyhock (Althaea/Alcea rosea), its close relative only marshmallow flowers are consistently white whereas hollyhocks — the ...

Even if you don't become enthusiastic for home-made marshmallow candy, you might still want to grow marsh mallow plants for their flowers.

You can grow marsh mallow, and if you do, now would be a good time to dig up a few pieces of root, candy them, and compare them with the fluffy product sold under the same name in plastic bags.

Of course you can't just pluck a squishy marshmallow from a marshmallow bush or tree. But marshmallows — real marshmallows — were originally made from the candied roots of a plant.