Re: terms/hollyhock??

Melody, 
Are you sure it's not just a fat root traveling horizontally?  Do new plants
arise at other places along this rhizome?
Kitty

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:23:55 -0600 "Pamela J. Evans"
<gardenqueen@gbronline.com> wrote:

> I'm stumped. It's supposed to be ugly here this
> weekend, so I'll try to
> do some research and see what I can find out!!
> That is wild now....
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message
> ----------------------------------
> From: "Melody" 
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:24:59 -0500 (EST)
> 
> >Okay, so if it looks like a holllyhock and
> smells like a hollyhock, but
> >grows from a rhizome, then what do you suppose
> it is?? Now, I'm
> >baffled...oh well, guess I'll start doing some
> searching.
> >
> >
> >
> >Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >
> >"The most beautiful thing we can experience is
> the mysterious."    
> >--Albert Einstein
> >
> >
> >On Thu 01/09, Kitty wrote:From: Kitty [mailto:
> kmrsy@earthlink.net]To:
> >gardenchat@hort.netDate: Thu, 09 Jan 2003
> 05:57:10 -0800Subject: Re:
> >[CHAT] termsMelody, I don't have any books
> here with me to verify, but
> >I'm fairly surethat Hollyhock, Alcea rosea is
> not rhizomatous.KittyOn
> >Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:13:57 -0500 (EST) Melody
> wrote:> But from a rhizome?>
> >> > Melody, IA (Z 5/4)> > "The most beautiful
> thing we can experience
> >is> the mysterious." > --Albert Einstein ---
> On Thu 01/09, Pamela J.>
> >Evans wrote:From: Pamela> J. Evans [mailto:
> >gardenqueen@gbronline.com]To:>
> gardenchat@hort.netDate:> Thu, 9 Jan 2003
> >06:01:36 -0600Subject: Re:> [CHAT]
> termsHollyhocks are> self-seeding
> >biennials. Mine do exactly the> same thing,
> even the ones in> pots!
> >---------- Original Message>
> ----------------------------------From:>
> >"Melody" Reply-To:> gardenchat@hort.netDate:
> Thu, 9 Jan 2003> 05:20:51
> >-0500 (EST)>So what do> they call perennials
> that only produce foliage>
> >and blooms>every other> year? A few years
> back, I was astounded to find>
> >a huge>rhizome of what> turned out to be a
> hollyhock buried in my back>
> >yard>underneath grass> that had been being
> mowed for years on end...I>
> >dug it>up and> transplanted it to my
> garden...it was easily> well over a
> >foot>long and> several inches thick. Now, safe
> from being> mowed down,
> >it lives>on but> it only comes up every other
> year, blooms like> mad and
> >seeds>itself> every where but the next year it
> is no where to> be
> >seen...Is this>thing> just a freak of nature
> or do other plants have> a
> >growth pattern>similar> to this?>>>>Melody, IA
> >
> >
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