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 ...

Every Mother's Day, my children wash my car and help me plant flowers. Last week, as I prepared the garden beds of my two side-by-side homes, I found one of what I call "Claire's hollyhocks" growing ...

That’s partly because of their height, drawing our eyes down the lawn towards the vegetable patch hidden behind a wall of logs that we made – dry stone wall-like – from a eucalyptus tree that died.

Statuesque, whimsical, and filled with quaint bygone charm, hollyhocks (Alcea spp.) are a quintessential cottage garden favorite. Growing hollyhocks adds structure and visual diversity to borders and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I have trouble growing hollyhocks. What am I doing wrong? I see them growing in the seams of pavement, but can’t grow them in my yard! — MG., Albuquerque A: You don’t say if you are planting from ...

Hollyhocks are wonderful summer-blooming flowers that look right at home in cottage gardens and perennial borders. These tall, colorful flowers are easy to grow, and their stately height is useful for ...

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 ...

I'd like to honor my mother and grandmother today by sharing their favorite flower with you: the Alcea rosea or Hollyhocks. These stately plants with bell-shaped flowers are the centerpiece for one of ...

Q. The last three years I have had scale on my hollyhocks. They just start to bloom, and the scale appears and they die. Is there something I can use to get rid of the scale? After they start to die, ...