Burpee Hollyhock

High from July to September. Try it along a fence or plant with verbascum for a special look. Grows best in full sun. This is the old-fashioned perennial hollyhock that is so hard to find.

Chaters Pink is extremely tough and drought tolerant and blooms second year after sowing in colorful spikes that can reach 7-8' tall, perfect for back borders or massed in beds near the house.

The shortest Alcea rosea and the first purple available as a single color. Use this plant for a dense hedge of season-long color. Great sturdy stalks that won't fall over.

Mars Magic is a hardy perennial that comes back each year with its vibrant red flowers. Grows 5-6' tall. Other hollyhocks do not flower until the 2nd season and then need to reseed themselves to bloom again.

Blacknight is a newer hybrid that is more vigorous and disease resistant so that you can count on performance in sunny garden areas. Grows 5-6' tall and 2' wide. These stunning 4'' flowers of the deepest darkest maroon will create a spectacle in your...

Hollyhocks begin as a low rosette of floppy, slightly fuzzy leaves. The hollyhocks then need a layer of organic material over the root zone to protect them from freezing. Put 4 to 6 inches over the base of the plant.In early spring, gradually start pulling...

Since these plants are short-lived perennials at best and may require two years to produce blooms, hollyhock weevil larvae can seriously disrupt the life cycle of your hollyhock bed.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

Below are some hollyhock rust treatments to try. At this point, the stems may also develop spots. Although the plant may not die, you may want to put hollyhocks with rust fungus out of their misery because of the severe disfigurement.Does hollyhock rust...

You can also plant bfreestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Once you have planted your hollyhocks, they will need minimal care, but there are a few things you should be aware of when growing hollyhocks.

Follow a few simple steps, however, and you'll have a wealth of the beautiful blooms from the hollyhocks as well as from other bare root plants.When purchasing bare root plants, keep a few things in mind.

This astounding blend of bicolor, single flowers in a spectrum of shades from white through pinks, purples, reds, and even nearly black, each with an inner shock of contrasting color encircling their central eye.

So, it was decided: I was going to sow lots of hollyhock seeds in my garden. As I was growing up, they were everywhere in our gardens, along the streets, popping up from nowhere, in the middle of some dry weeds.In the neighborhood where I lived as a child,...

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I am sure everyone has their favorite destinations within their little bit of earth where complete relaxation and meditation can take place. I have chosen plants that offer feelings of sentimentality, tantalizing, gorgeous fragrances and exceptional beauty.

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She is a kind and gifted illustrator and I cannot thank her enough for allowing me to use her illustration for this story. It is the 1830s and on a plantation in Georgia, Priscilla has just lost her mother.

Spring brings with her transitions to the garden landscape. I have a special box for all the vintage plant tags I find. They sensed they lost the battle for they uprooted very easily.

$2.00 for 30 seeds. Beautiful addition to any garden. Beautiful rare plant. Will self seed. Covered in blooms. 30 seeds for $2.00. Plants grow 4-8 foot high. Beautiful double black hollyhock seeds.

I have a collection of differn color $2.00 for a packet of 30 or more seed with planting inst. I have color of yellow double bloom ==red double bloom==pink double bloom==black single bloom==peach single bloom ==red single bloom

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A biennial or short-lived perennial, it grows to a height of 1.2-2.5m (4-8ft), and bears oversized round leaves and large flowers of white, pink, purple, red or yellow arranged in spikes.

No. 1 bareroot. Bloom from midsummer to early fall. Plant in full sun. Adds old-fashioned cottage garden charm. This plant attracts butterflies. Colorful, ruffled double flowers in pink, apricot, violet, purple, scarlet, white or yellow bloom on sturdy,...

Double hollyhock grows to between 1.2-2.5m (4-8ft), and features huge, full blooms that are attractive to birds, bees, butterflies – and little children! Buds, flowers and young leaves are edible and can be added to salads for interest and colour.

They can be used in flower bed arrangements with other spring blooming perennial bulbs for long lasting color and forced in containers indoor as well. Deep pink almost red blooms add vertical dimension, and are focal point for spring garden arrangements.