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 ...

One of my favorite flowers growing up was hollyhocks. There was a stand of them, along the side of the horse shed on the family farm. My grandmother had planted them long ago, but somehow, magically, ...

There are lots of beautiful new flowers and plants that are promoted each year to the gardener by various vendors and gardening magazines. We all get taken in by these potential new contributions to ...

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Hollyhocks are cheerful custodians of summer gardens. With their showy blooms borne on erect stalks of blooms they are old favorites and seem to be making a revival. Lubbock A-J reader N.M. of Lubbock ...

Q: I seem to remember last year (or the year before), you had an article about pruning back coneflowers, shasta daisies, etc. so they don't get top heavy and fall over. If so, would you please tell me ...

SPECIES: Alcea rosea (al-se ASCIICHAR_e1 a, ro ASCIICHAR_e1 ze-a); 60 species of tall, leafy-stemmed biennial or perennial herbs, all from temperate regions of the Old World. FLOWERS: Showy single or ...

The trusty blue-purple of the Pasque flower is heralding another spring in the front yard. Around the corner, the green clumps of foliage mean the columbines will be sending their flower stalks aloft ...

For many generations, gardeners saved the seeds of their annualand perennial flowering garden plants, as well as vegetables, forthe next growing season. That was the time that there were hardlyany ...