Re: Hollyhocks
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Hollyhocks
- From: D* K*
- Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:28:21 -0700
My hollyhock in Zone 6 is very hardy. Its more than quadrupled in size in
three years and looks positively tropical, the leaves are huge and it must
have self seeded because there are new plants popping up several feet away;
its bloomed every year and there are hundreds of buds just waiting to
burst with many already open. And I do nothing to pamper it because if I
did I swear it would get bigger than a tree.
Doreen
>One thing I don't think was mentioned in the recent thread about hollyhocks
>is that they are biennial. That means it is normal for them to put up
shoots
>the first year, bloom the second year and then die. Dr. Steven M . Still of
>the Dept. of Horticulture, Ohio State University, lists them in his 'Manual
>of Herbaceous Ornamental Plants' as a half-hardy biennial. But he does
>mention that it is listed as a perennial hardy to zone 5 in some books,
which
>may explain the confusion. I have also seen it listed as a half-hardy
>perennial. Some of you said that your hollyhocks return each year. Is it
>possible that they are self-seeding? Or are there truly perennial varieties
>available? --Janis
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