I love hollyhocks for so many reasons. They are such a wonderful sight during summertime, with tall stems offering generous displays of flowers. Hollyhocks self-seed and often grow in little cracks in pavements, up against walls and fences.
The range of colours is delightful, including white, yellow, pink, and red. Hollyhocks are biennials, which means they grow green foliage and establish themselves in the first year, in readiness for producing a tall flowering stem in the second year.
If the summer flowering stem is left to create seed pods into early autumn, it will simply drop the seeds, and a cycle of hollyhocks growing and flowering in the same place will begin.
If we copy Mother Nature and sow the seeds in autumn, we can expect the hollyhocks to germinate in spring and begin their two-year growing and flowering cycle.
You can also plant potted hollyhocks at any time. They cope well in most soils and are very easy to care for — although to prevent them from blowing over in strong winds, it’s best to grow them in sheltered spots.
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