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the hollyhocks are doing well in the front garden this year, how's everyone else's??
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I love Hollyhocks but gave up trying to grow them when they got rust two years running. Thanks for sharing yours. :D

These look lovely, tonybloke. I love these single hollyhocks - I don't like the silly pom pom type things.

Mine always have rust, but it's never affected their flowering (leaves look manky though)

I've got some cream and white ones at the front and pink and dark red at the back. I sowed them the Autumn before last from seed from my old allotment, and they took all this time to establish. This is the first year they've flowered.

They do so well in the drought, but they look very English cottage garden. Lovely.

I got my hollyhock seed by seeing them in people's gardens, knocking on the door and asking for some seed. I rarely see pale coloured single flowered ones.

Where did you get yours Tonybloke?

Quote from: pigeonseed on July 08, 2010, 21:27:53
I got my hollyhock seed by seeing them in people's gardens, knocking on the door and asking for some seed. I rarely see pale coloured single flowered ones.
Where did you get yours Tonybloke?

erm, they jumped into my pocket whilst on a walk in the countryside (theyare planted along the field margins of some wildflower meadows just south of norwich, at caistor-st-edmund somewhere nr the number '12' on the pdf found here
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/highash_farm.pdf

;)

Your neighbors must love looking into your yard. It is lovely.
I gave up on mine due to Japanese beetles but love the cottagey look of them.

The dry weather isn't doing them any favours  :'(



Ninny

Tony,
Here is group growing in my patch,

May not be up to some peoples standards but at least the rust is not as bad as it looks.

They look lovely, Landimad.

And what's wrong with yours Ninny? They look nice to me? I think they like hot dry weather. I haven't watered mine once, when this summer even the cranesbill geranium has needed watering.

Quote from: Ninnyscrops. on July 09, 2010, 22:42:41
The dry weather isn't doing them any favours  :'(



Ninny

can I have some seed from the dark one? LOL

I grow those dark ones as well, fab, and every year they would get pinched from the garden near the gate  :o so now grow them elsewhere and on the allotment, I love them, but mine are only just getting flower buds on them, must nurture them in this dry weather

Pigeonseed, the blooms are further apart than in usual summers.

Tony, I'll save you some "Nigra" seed  ;)

Ninny

Yes I see what you mean - I did wonder if they were, or if I was just imagining it!
Still very pretty.