Hollyhock

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Hollyhocks are one of my favorite flowers in the garden. I posted about my love of this plant last year when they were blooming at the end of June.

Yesterday, I was walking around and saw that some hollyhocks were sprouting up. I expect in 10-12 weeks we will have the wonderful blooms in the garden. If you want to plant hollyhocks, give them a sunny and dry spot. They don't mind the dry conditions that most plants will not tolerate. Hollyhocks do well throughout the United States with the exception of northern New England and some parts of the south, like Oklahoma according to the USDA. Hollyhocks have a long taproot, so once you plant them, they don't like to be transplanted. But, they are easy to grow from seed, so getting new plants is never a problem. In fact, hollyhocks reseed so easily that many people assume they are perennials. In fact, they are biennials, meaning they bloom every OTHER year. So, find that nice sunny and dry spot for your hollyhocks and they will reward you year after year with six, seven, even ten foot spikes of colorful blooms!