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 ...

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 ...

Self-seeding flowers can add a lot of beauty to your garden without a lot of work, and one self-seeder is easy to maintain and fills a lot of space.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. person sowing seeds in pots and trays - encierro/Shutterstock Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) are a beautiful, tall perennial that are ...

This abundantly blooming flower adds to the height and texture of a cottage garden. It's available in many colors with a mature height of up to 8 feet.

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 ...

Hollyhocks have long been a part of the American landscape, often seen in old sepia photos towering over fences. They also were planted to screen the outhouse so that prim ladies of the 19th century ...

French hollyhocks, also known as fig-leaved hollyhocks (Alcea ficifolia), are an old-fashioned flower making a comeback in West Texas gardens. Unlike common hollyhock (Alcea rosea), French hollyhocks ...

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