We recently found these on new flower spike. These are small sap sucking insect usually found on new tender shoots and underneath leaves. If you find your having lots of snails and slugs which seem to be out of control, here is how we control them. To protect our seedling once transplanted, we go out at night and check our plants for snails and slugs. Snails and Slugs love to eat tender shoot and young seedlings. We hadn’t had many issues with our hollyhocks except for the odd snail and slug, but recently have found both aphids and scale on our hollyhocks. ![]() You can save the seed from your hollyhocks Common Problems with Hollyhocks Don’t forget to label your seeds so you can remember what colour they were. Collect the seeds and they can be resown. Just let the flower spike die off and seeds dry out. We save the seed from our hollyhock and its very easy to do. In the autumn and spring add some homemade compost, manure and mulch. Remove any dead and diseased foliage.īecause hollyhocks can grow for between 2-5 years and are heavy feeders, you will need to make sure you are fertilising regularly. Hollyhock require very little maintenance but if you live in a high wind area you will need to stake your flower spikes and once the flower spikes are past there prime prune them back to ground. Hollyhock flowers have a large range of beautiful colours How to Care for you Hollyhocks They will continue to flower depending on the variety for between 2-5 years. Hollyhocks take between 150 – 200 days to flower. If by chance the weather changes you can cover them with a piece of shade cloth and make sure they have plenty of water and mulch. When transplanting them just keep a eye on the weather as you don’t want to transplant them during a heatwave and want about a weeks’ worth of good weather to transplant them. We like to transplant our seedlings when they have 4-5 leaves and about 10cm tall. When planting our hollyhocks, we like to enrich the soil by adding some homemade compost, manure, organic slow release fertilser and mulch. Hollyhock grow best in full sun, live between 2 and 5 years and don’t like to have the soil around them disturbed. ![]() We also have a lot of self-seeded hollyhocks come up. Hollyhock seeds take 10=14 days to germinate and germinate best when soil temperatures are between 18-28 degrees. We like to sow our hollyhock seed in seedling tray as you can control the environment and flower colours. We sow our seed in either in autumn or spring. Here in Perth, we can grow our hollyhocks all year round, however they slow down a lot over winter and in the heat of summer require some shade and protection. ![]() ![]() What’s not love about hollyhocks When to Plant Hollyhock Here is how we grow our hollyhocks from seed, care for them and problems we have ran into. Hollyhocks are an easy plant to grow with very limited pest problems, they start easily from seed and a perfect plant for a beginner gardener to grow. I remember hollyhocks in our garden near our front door as a kid, they are a plant you don’t forget. There massive flower spike in bloom, they sure make a statement in the garden. Hollyhocks, what isn’t to love about them, they are a classic cottage garden plant.
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