Q: I love hollyhocks for their colorful, crinkled flowers, and I have a row of them planted along the edge of my patio which I grew from seed. I was disappointed last year, however, as unsightly ...

No perennial garden is complete without a stand of hollyhock along a wall or at the back of the border. My favorites are the dark purplish-black, single-flowering varieties that sometimes reach 9 feet ...

Q: I have a hollyhock problem and wonder if its due to all the rain. I finally got a nice row going along the sunny side of my garage, but just as they started to bloom, the leaves became covered with ...

Q. My hollyhocks have what looks like blight. There are new leaves emerging normally. What causes this and is there any treatment for it, other than cutting out the blighted leaves?-Margaret Bitz, ...

For romanticism, stature, elegance and pollinator-friendly credentials, growing hollyhocks will add a very special dimension ...

Admired in the ancient gardens of China, hollyhocks are among the oldest cultivated flowers. They were brought to Europe by explorers in the 16th century. Named by the English herbalist William Turner ...

QIn late summer last year, I grew hollyhocks from seed. They grew well, and in the spring they started to produce flower buds. They became covered, though, in a rust-like fungus. I tried to treat the ...

Every time I look at my hollyhocks, I have fond memories of my grandparents' farm and picking the hollyhocks to make hollyhock dolls. Hollyhocks are a robust, unfussy biennial that will prefer ...

THE tall waving flowers of hollyhocks have been noticeable in gardens this summer. Hollyhocks always make their presence felt, towering upwards with large flowers on stems that can reach to well over ...

Common hollyhocks, Alcea rosea, members of the Malvaceae or mallow family along with marsh mallow or Malva and okra, Hibiscus esculentus, have been around for a very long time. In fact, Alcea seeds ...