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Growing Hollyhocks: How to Get the Most from this Cottage Garden Classic

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

Hollyhocks take two years to bloom; they're biennial

Question: My hollyhocks are not blooming. They were planted from seed, and instead of forming a tall flower stalk, they send out many small bushy stems. What went wrong? Answer: Hollyhocks are a ...
Orange County Register

Make magic happen for your garden hollyhocks with this little trick

1. Happy Fourth of July! Dead-head your roses whenever the aging flowers shatter. Dead-heading is the term for cutting off old blooms. Removing old flowers promotes higher-quality reblooming every six ...
Los Angeles Daily News

5 things to do in your garden: Deadhead geraniums, don’t hurt trees with weed-whacker, get a second bloom with hollyhocks, prune fruit trees, cut back boysenberries

1 Help your geraniums and other flowering plants bloom more throughout the summer and into autumn by removing faded blossoms on a regular basis, as soon as the blooms fade. This is called deadheading.