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Re: questions regarding hollyhocks and phlox

To all of you wonderful gardeners!

Will you please give us your zone (USDA/Sunset) and any additional hints
about your climatic conditions, so that we can interpret (if possible)
how your input would apply to us in our conditions.  I live in Northern
California and have no idea how much of anything applies to my
conditions here.  And yes, I want to grow hollyhocks and delphinium, but
don't know how?  What you write is very helpful in general, but we the
average gardeners need to know where you are (and then how to apply this
information.)  Thank you so very much!

Alex

lowery@teamzeon.com wrote:

> 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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Alex Teller
109 Fernwood Drive
Moraga, CA 94556-2315
E-mail: alextell@pacbell.net


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