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RE: questions regarding hollyhocks and phlox





The only thing I can figure with the hollyhocks is since most are
biennials, the first year they did just what they were supposed to do:
leaf out only.  If you grew them from seed sown in the ground, I can only
guess that some of those sprouted the second year that didn't sprout the
first.  It also depends on the seed.  If you got those from someone's
garden, they may not be as reliable as those from a professional due to the
hybrid nature (in my humble experience only, as I coveted a friend's double
maroon ones and the darn things never did grow right for me).  My double
hollyhocks do not self-seed reliably to my yearly frustration.  I have
helped them along by taking seed pods and sowing them as they dried.  Even
still, I only got two sorry looking plants the next year that didn't bloom
and subsequently died never to be seen again.  The single hollyhocks will
come back if I do the same for them.  You go figure.  Thusly, I buy the
double hollyhock seed every other year.

I've never tried to grow them from seed this late in the year, however.
The ones I sow in the ground from the plants overwinter in a dormant state
and come up the following year just to leaf out.  I've started them inside
under lights in March and these will sometimes bloom the first year.
Speaking of which, I cut mine back last month and two plants have budded up
again.  This hasn't happened before -- is this a normal thing or am I to
consider myself just lucky??


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