Gardeners Cottage tips on growing Hollyhocks

[@bobbiechinn9578]

Your garden shows the absolute best of... If one would look at only the beauty the colors, the frilly edges of the spent leaves with the points showing upward,... The towers of showy blooms, oh how can you not as a flora lover ❤❤❤💚💚💚🌻🌻🌻🏵️🏵️🏵️🦋🦋🦋🐦🐦🐦 the blooms leave me dumbfounded ❤

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Wow, thank you! 🙏 ☺️

[@spencerharvey8044]

Absolutely stunning - hollyhocks are incredible

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you . We are looking forward to them coming back into flower

[@sabinabaldwin4118]

Lovely! I raised beautiful, nearly black hollyhocks from seed this year. You've inspired me to let them colonize... perhaps I'll have some new colors next season. Thank you for the wonderful advice!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

We love black hollyhocks hope they do well for you

[@christonamtb4089]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 do you know what colour flowers the black hollyhock seeds produces?

[@parrotsandmore7446]

@@christonamtb4089 probably black, unless they cross pollinated with another color. Then some will be black, some will be the other color, or they can combine and make a new color

[@UpperPacker]

@@christonamtb4089 I believe all hollyhock seeds are black by the time they're ready for planting.

[@grettalemabouchou6779]

A most charming flower 🌺

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

So nice of you to say it’s one of our favourites

[@lbenson2488]

Beautiful! Please continue to share their beauty=)

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you will do

[@maxzytaruk8558]

Super inspiring!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Glad you think so! Thank you ☺️

[@pamellasmith2503]

Absolutely gorgeous 🌸

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you they are at their best this month

[@loonylinda]

they are beautiful best wishes from Norwich

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

thank you best wishes from Blakeney

[@eleanoraddy4683]

Ooh I've been collecting seeds from various places where these grow wild and I had no idea they started short and got taller every year! Hopefully once I get a patch going they will look after themselves like yours do. The spot is an area that completely died back to bare ground during the heatwave so it's definitely hard ground! I'm going to throw everything at it and see what sticks in the way of survivors

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Good luck Eleanor Hollyhocks generally thrive on poor soil where other plants would struggle to grow

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Beautiful plants!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

They are! One of our favourite cottage garden plants and so easy to grow once you know the secrets to growing them

[@petermoore7315]

Thanks for the video. I know you're walking around but can you do anything to increase the volume?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Working on it, will try to speak louder

[@ChipsGreenWorld]

What a amazing place you have 💚 gorgeous flowers 🌸🌱 Chip from CHIPS WORLD 👋🏼

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thanks for visiting Chip, glad you enjoyed the flowers

[@ChipsGreenWorld]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 your very welcome 👍🏼🌱 Chip

[@JacobsOompa]

Beautiful video. When you RECORD, turn your volume LOUDER... If recorded with your volume down to your level, we the viewer are UNABLE to turn our volume louder , because it was recorded too LOW to begin with, thus, not allowing us the viewers to adjust the volume on our end. This happens so much. Our ability to adjust the volume is taken away during the RECORDING stage. Makes it very hard and disappointing for those of us who may have trouble hearing to begin with. Thanks so much

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Noted! thank you for the tip we will try that. I did not know this . It explains a lot

[@RavenPoe-bz7qx]

Thanks for the tips!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

You are very welcome

[@clarefoskett9959]

Gorgeous colours, I'm in Cromer ❤❤❤❤

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you. We visit Cromer regularly love to walk along beach and have fish and chips on pier followed by an ice cream

[@arnoldsimon8558]

Beautiful paradise!!!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you glad you enjoyed

[@hotrodmom86]

🦋Beautiful! I'm going to try some almost black hollyhock this year. 🌺 Great video!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

good luck

[@chrislawn6158]

Do you cut old flowered plants down and allow to grow a second year or do you remove them and let the seedlings grow for the second years blooms?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Great question Chris . We cut them down and allow them to keep flowering. We often find the second year we get a shorter plant but multi stemmed with. Every year we lose some of the older hollyhock plants over winter so always have lots of young ones coming on.

[@carmenzamastil1545]

Beautiful❤

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you we look forward to them coming into flower again in next couple of months

[@TamiGoldmann]

Beautiful!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you Tami

[@Annie-pz4lw]

I bought a small hollyhock plant a few weeks ago and no signs of any buds or flowers yet. Complete novice here so can’t work out whether this is normal. Any ideas please?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Sorry for slow reply. Hope your plant is doing well. Hollyhocks are biannuals so if the plant is very young it may not flower until next year. Be patient it will eventually flower and well worth the wait.

[@sansidaan2039]

Thanks for this video. Do you do anything about the bugs on those leaves which I've found on mine which makes those spotted leaves. Also I don't know what I've done with my soil but the leaves on mine are huge and look like they're on drugs.haha I'm in Sydney Australia.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

It sounds like the hollyhocks love your climate . We get rust on ours which is a type of mold I believe . We don't usually get any bugs on ours but we are in UK so a bug population is different to yours.

[@sansidaan2039]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 Yes I watched your video again and it could be rust as it looks like mine too. Weirdly I've watched other videos and they talk about Hollyhocks being a winter plant here. But I saved these and grew this during spring and it's still all alive (except for the flowers which I've just collected a million seeds from) and some grew high and the others are still short. I've noticed the ones that got full sun the whole day grew the biggest. Thanks for the vids.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

You’re very welcome ☺️ yes ours seed abundantly to , how did yours do this year

[@wonderingthoughts926]

I bought some hollyhocks this spring in a garden centre, are they likely to flower this year?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Most likely yes as they will have been down last autumn

[@katharinazwing4700]

Dear Sir, i would Love to possess some of that seeds of your hollyhocks. But when grown in such an ideal areaz all local hollyhock Sorts might propagate in the Long Run in a similar way Like yours. You inspired me to do the Same in my courtyard on my Farm, when the Windows of the second House are being build in: a courtyard with gravel and hollyhocks, in the swamp and forest Region snowballs and bluebells and camelia under the big trees together with Roses etc. IT IS a delight to watch your Films. Thanks for the inspiration. Kath. Zwing

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

sound lovely, good luck

[@123K4x4]

My patio is in the shade. Will Hollyhock grow in the shade?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

They prefer sun ☀️ will grow in partial shade . You may get them to grow .

[@stevenvitali7404]

Hi , great video, I have a hollyhock plant that last year snapped and never flowered, I cut it off low to the ground, then it sprouted 5 individual stems, they are now about 4 feet high with big leaves everywhere, I can see on the stems where the buds are forming but it looks like the leaves will be in the way?, I've never grown them before so I'm not familiar with it's growth habit, is that how they grow, the plant is also about 3 feet wide, any advice would be great

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Sorry for late reply. Sounds great! I might try that trick myself to get more flowers on some of mine . They do get very big

[@stevenvitali7404]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 yes ended up being 7 feet tall with loads of flowers, the bees loved them

[@Princess.Poncho]

So i wonder how did u start the hollyhawk garden? Did u till the ground and add compost in? In the video you said you dont fertilize or water them so im just curious how you started out!!❤

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

We didn't do any prep we just seeded the gravel with the hollyhock seeds and they came up . As long as you give them the right conditions they are very easy to grow in most of the UK. They like poor well drained soil, sunlight and shelter from strong winds

[@Princess.Poncho]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 thanks for the reply!!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

You are very welcome . Have you grown hollyhocks

[@Princess.Poncho]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 I did plant some but it was too late in tbe season and the snow came and killed what I had grown! :( but when they seed this year I plan to collect some and keep them for the begging of next summer! 🥰

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

That’s a shame we are lucky as our winters are very mild . Definitely worth keeping some seed to sow in spring or summer . It must be harder to grow biannuals when you have bad winters . We had a long hard winter a couple of years ago where we had snow on the ground for about a week in May and amazingly the hollyhocks came through it although we did lose all our agapanthus in pots that year I think

[@erincole6955]

Beautiful

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you

[@irenewong59]

Good on gravel

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

They grow really well on gravel

[@lindabarrow8]

Gave it a thumbs down, who knows what he said, volume too low.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Sorry about that Linda, I'll ask him to speak up . Not sure why he talks so quietly on the videos . Thank you for the feedback