FREE: !!! 100 Heirloom Hollyhock Seeds !!!

The listing, !!! 100 Heirloom Hollyhock Seeds !!! has ended.

The ultimate cottage garden choice, hollyhock sends up tall spires that cover themselves in flowers in beautiful colors. They're easy to grow from seed -- in fact, that's usually the only way they are found in garden centers.

Most hollyhocks are biennials, that is, they grow only foliage the first year, flower the second, and die that fall. However, if you establish a stand of hollyhocks, they'll reseed each year so there will always be plenty blooming. Interestingly, the flowers open from the bottom to the top of the spike throughout the summer.

These tall (up to 8 feet) beauties are ideal against fences or buildings where they can get natural support. Red forms are especially attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies.

Light:
Sun
Zones:
3-8
Plant Type:
Perennial
Plant Height:
3-8 feet tall
Plant Width:
1-3 feet wide
Flower Color:
A broad range of flower colors available from red to pink, apricot, yellow, lavender, purple, and near black, depending on variety
Bloom Time:
Blooms early to midsummer
Landscape Uses:
Containers,Beds & Borders
Special Features:
Flowers,Cut Flowers,Attracts Hummingbirds,Attracts Butterflies,Easy to Grow

The Hollyhock, first brought to this country from China, was once eaten as a pot-herb, though it is not particularly palatable.

Its flowers are employed medicinally for their emollient, demulcent and diuretic properties, which make them useful in chest complaints. Their action is similar to Marshmallow.

Sow the seeds outside about a week before last frost. If you are planting seedlings out, wait about 2 – 3 weeks after last frost. Hollyhock seeds only need to be planted right below the soil, no more than 1/4 of an inch deep. Hollyhock plants should be about 2 feet apart to grow well.

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