you just described our weather conditions perfectly (sw Ks; zone 5)... love hollyhocks earlier in the season, but hate their scraggly ways later on -- a friend told me today she found the answer to that.. she lets morning glories and moom flowers vine up the stalks -- the timing is about perfect..
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- Subject: Re: questions regarding hollyhocks and phlox
- From: l*@teamzeon.com
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:16:36 -0400
A million apologies! I forget to put what zone I'm in (no, not the Twilight one...). I'm in zone 5/6. The hollyhock tale I told works for me here in the Ohio Valley where Mother Nature is quirky -- we have everything but the hurricanes and earthquakes. Anything I plant here must like near desert conditions in the summer with haze, heat, humidity, and drought; spring brings flooding, high winds, tornadoes, highly fluctuating high & low temps; winter can be mild one day and an ice storm the next, no reliable snow -- last year it was mild, year before a record snow fall. However, fall is always beautiful, and right now I'm in a gardener's paradise with all of the planting I'm doing with the fall nursery sales. Question: is now the time to transplant oriental lilly bulbs? Do I transplant them with the stalks still attached (they're still green)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
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