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 ...

A group of pink, white, and red hollyhocks stand tall in bloom near a building. - JULIA Culp/Shutterstock Hollyhocks are wonderful summer-blooming flowers that look right at home in cottage gardens ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Well, it's Father's Day weekend, and already we are almost through the month of June. It's this time of year we want to make sure we keep up with the weeding and the watering of our gardens, but don't ...

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 ...

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