{"id":416,"date":"2013-08-05T01:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:09:00","slug":"holly-the-hollyhock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/holly-the-hollyhock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Growing Hollyhocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How high&#8217;s  the Holyhock mama? 6 feet high and rising&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Hollyhock by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3839118173\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hollyhock\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3536\/3839118173_0c6d3e17d6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>One distinguishing feature of Hollyhocks are the 5 inch saucer shaped flowers growing on stalks up to 8 feet tall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>They are well known in Cottage garden designs as they provide height and focal points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Hollyhocks are known and often sold by their Latin names Alcea Rosea or Althaea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Flowers are single in a range of colours from red almost black through pinks rose to white and yellow There is a pompom type double called Chater&#8217;s mixture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Hollyhocks are best if sown from fresh seed in late summer. The plants may be treated as biennials though they are hard perennials that have a shortish life. If sown in spring they may not flower until the next season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Keep seeds and seedlings watered and encourage good root formation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Don&#8217;t compost leaves as they may have rust. Keep plants tidy by cutting leaves and spent blooms with secateurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Dead heading will help a second flush of flowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Madiera Hollyhock by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5592858520\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madiera Hollyhock\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5026\/5592858520_da83a28674.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How high&#8217;s the Holyhock mama? 6 feet high and rising&#8230;&#8230; &nbsp; One distinguishing feature of Hollyhocks are the 5 inch saucer shaped flowers growing on stalks up to 8 feet tall. They are well known in Cottage garden designs as they provide height and focal points. Hollyhocks are known and often sold by their Latin names Alcea Rosea or Althaea Flowers are single in a range of colours from red almost black through pinks rose to white and yellow There&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/holly-the-hollyhock\/\"> 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-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}