More Hollyhocks

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jul 17, 2008 11:22 am

I sure hope you are up for some more!!

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jul 17, 2008 11:23 am

Our cross, with more to come, they are slow to open.

Hosta12_Ia · Post by **Hosta12_Ia** » 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

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » Jul 17, 2008 3:11 pm

That first one knocked my socks off!!

Hosta12_Ia · Post by **Hosta12_Ia** » Jul 17, 2008 4:21 pm

Claudia, do you wear frilly socks like the first picture?? Too hot for socks here....

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » 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

Annie · Post by **Annie** » 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?

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » Jul 17, 2008 10:22 pm

Hosta12_Ia wrote:Claudia, do you wear frilly socks like the first picture?? Too hot for socks here....

OMG!!

Not no more...but man, when I was a kid...I hated all that stuff!

JaneG · Post by **JaneG** » 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!!!

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jul 17, 2008 11:22 pm

Scream at me this fall and I'll send out seeds for postage.

Libby · Post by **Libby** » Jul 17, 2008 11:53 pm

Those are gorgeous, I never knew they came in such colors and had ruffles!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » 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.

kHT · Post by **kHT** » 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?

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » 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?

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Aug 06, 2008 7:09 pm

REALLY PRETTY!!

kHT · Post by **kHT** » 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.

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » 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?

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Aug 06, 2008 11:16 pm

They are bi annuals. So they won't bloom the first year, but the second year they should.

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » 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.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » 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!

Hallson Gardens

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