{"id":10012,"date":"2016-08-08T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:08:29","slug":"growing-purple-malva-hollyhocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-purple-malva-hollyhocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing  Hollyhocks &#8211; Purple Malva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Madiera mch11 501 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5592858520\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5026\/5592858520_da83a28674.jpg\" alt=\"Madiera mch11 501\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hollyhock family are from the Alcea genus but I couldn&#8217;t find a UK supplier of the variety above..<\/p>\n<p>Malva sylvestris Magic Hollyhock has beautiful rich purple pink flowers, veined deep glossy purple, some loosely double like Old Fashioned Roses. It thrives easily in most soils providing a magnificent display.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1605541575\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1605541575.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Cultivation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sow from late winter to early spring 1.5mm (1\/16in) deep in John Innes Seed Compost.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that the compost is moist but not wet and seal in a polythene bag until after germination, which normally takes 15-21 days at 21C (70F).<\/li>\n<li>Transplant when large enough to handle into 7.5cm (3 in) pots.<\/li>\n<li>Grow cool and later plant out 60cm (24in) apart into an ordinary but not rich soil in sun and some shelter. If windy tie to a stake or support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hollyhock Malva sylvestris &#8216;Magic&#8217; is available as seed from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=hollyhock\"> Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to know if it is an Alcea or Malva <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/aroid-or-alcea-lily-or-malva\/\">read <\/a>about Aroids<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/holly-the-hollyhock\/\">Growing Hollyhocks for Fun<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Madiera mch11 350 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5591861579\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5226\/5591861579_40704da321.jpg\" alt=\"Madiera mch11 350\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Madiera mch11 352 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5592453540\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5592453540_7cde5cbabe.jpg\" alt=\"Madiera mch11 352\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollyhock family are from the Alcea genus but I couldn&#8217;t find a UK supplier of the variety above.. Malva sylvestris Magic Hollyhock has beautiful rich purple pink flowers, veined deep glossy purple, some loosely double like Old Fashioned Roses. It thrives easily in most soils providing a magnificent display. Cultivation Sow from late winter to early spring 1.5mm (1\/16in) deep in John Innes Seed Compost. Make sure that the compost is moist but not wet and seal in a polythene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-purple-malva-hollyhocks\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}