More Hollyhocks
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 11:22 am
I sure hope you are up for some more!!
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Posted: Jul 17, 2008 11:23 am
Our cross, with more to come, they are slow to open.
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 12:31 pm
Always up for more! Very pretty. I don't have much luck with hollyhocks. They always have the leaves chewed to pieces.
TFS
Jo
TFS
Jo
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 3:11 pm
That first one knocked my socks off!! 
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 4:21 pm
Claudia, do you wear frilly socks like the first picture?? Too hot for socks here....
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 4:23 pm
I really like the first one. I have not seen a ruffled flower like that before. I had three years of Hollyhocks and I just loved them. They were just the old fashioned red. They did not come back this year, so I guess I will have to replant next year and wait another year for blooms.
Are the white ones your crosses or did you buy it?
Ginger
Are the white ones your crosses or did you buy it?
Ginger
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 6:45 pm
Your hollyhocks are so pretty, and clean-no spots or anything on the leaves!
How do you keep those evil bugs off them?
How do you keep those evil bugs off them?
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 10:22 pm
OMG!!Hosta12_Ia wrote:Claudia, do you wear frilly socks like the first picture?? Too hot for socks here....
Not no more...but man, when I was a kid...I hated all that stuff!
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 10:30 pm
I love Hollyhocks, gotta get me some!!! Those are all great, but that first ruffly one . . . wow, I've never seen that in a hollyhock before! SWEET!!!
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 11:22 pm
Scream at me this fall and I'll send out seeds for postage.
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 11:53 pm
Those are gorgeous, I never knew they came in such colors and had ruffles!
Posted: Jul 18, 2008 1:05 pm
Oh, they're beautiful Karma! 
I think the first and the third are the ones you sent me seeds from. I winter sowed them and have some plants growing so hopefully they will overwinter well and I'll have flowers next year.
I think the first and the third are the ones you sent me seeds from. I winter sowed them and have some plants growing so hopefully they will overwinter well and I'll have flowers next year.Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 05, 2008 8:39 pm
I had one double red bloom last year and this year I have two. I love them so much I order 100 seeds and was thinking these would look sharp up and down the south and north property line?
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 6:58 pm
Those are gorgeous , Karma! I planted hollyhocks one time and they didn't return the next year. Are they generally tough to grow in some climates or was it just me?
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 7:09 pm
REALLY PRETTY!!
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:47 pm
I hear the doubles are the picky? I just want a whole fence line of these!! I'll have some extra pinks, blacks and double whites. Just let me know as they are starting to set seeds.
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:06 pm
Is there some kind of trick to Hollyhocks? I have three that I wintersowed in 06/07 that actually came back this year but none of them even have buds. What did I do wrong? Do they need lots of fertilizer?
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:16 pm
They are bi annuals. So they won't bloom the first year, but the second year they should.
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:20 pm
Annie, This is their second year. I sowed them in April of '07 and then planted them in the ground. They came back this spring but they have no buds. 
Re: More Hollyhocks
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:30 pm
OH never mind
As for feeding them I don't. Course mine aren't the doubles or anything, just the plain ones you see every where.
Shoot mine are even growing in the grass!
As for feeding them I don't. Course mine aren't the doubles or anything, just the plain ones you see every where.
Shoot mine are even growing in the grass!