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Ceri:
my hollyhocks are just finishing flowering now and looking a bit raggledy - I want to collect the seed from the best one for next year - I've never done this before - at what stage in the poor thing's demise can I collect the seed - and how please.

teresa:
Hi Cerig

The flowers you had lower down the stem should now show the small seed pods.
These can be picked off ( have a look inside one should show seeds in a circle)
Pick the whole little pod and put in a large envelope to dry natuarly and LABLE what they are.
If yours were a F1 chances are the seedlings will be different colours to parent plant you may find a new colour.
If you sink a pot by the parent plant and fill with soil water and sow some seeds in it they should come if now not but in the spring. Mimick mother nature?
you could try some in a greenhouse and save some till spring.
Mine are just comming slowly but I got them off a lottie which someone had dumped them so nothing ventured nothing gained. Thats the joy of gardening something for nothing is always more fun.
Teresa

Ceri:
Many thanks Theresa, I'll have a crack - I was given the seeds so don't know if they were F1, but one grew over 9ft in the end, so that's the one I'm going collect from.  Cheers

teresa:
good luck Cerig let us know how you get on. ;)
Teresa

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