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| I have tried for some time to get various colors of double hollyhocks to grow. Finally, I got some deep red and two shades of pink to grow & flower but now I seem to see after a couple of years a lot of the single variety growing & flowering! Some of these are not quite all single but with a ruffle or two on some of the petals .. does the seed of the double hollyhocks revert to single when they fall & grow? Also, how long does an individual plant survive .. the ones I have the original plant is in the second or third season. My flower beds are all 'natural' ... they re-seed & grow wherever now in the original flower bed. |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Thu, Jul 2, 09 at 12:34
| I was sure waiting to see if someone else had an idea on this one. My first thought is that maybe they are crossing with each other or maybe the hollyhock you had was a hybrid and the seed were not true to begin with. If several hollyhocks are close together they will tend to cross and the seeds will be totally different than the parent plant. As far as the life of a single plant that I am unsure about, I do know that a neighbor of mine has had a hollyhock in her garden at least 7 or 8 years could be longer. I obtained seed from it and grew my own and I have had it for 2 or 3 years. |
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| I'm not sure if the double hollyhock seed are hybrid varieties (the seed package just said 'double hollyhock mixture of colors')but I am quite sure the one's I grew did not cross with any single varieties. I guess then the seed then must revert back to the single varieties. I too have had the same plant come back again for a couple of years & some plant stalks in bloom way over 8-10 feet tall. but wasn't sure if they were true perennials or not. On the farm they just did as they wanted & we never paid much attention to them ... oh, as little girls we made flower dolls out of the open flowers & the un-opened bud ... can't remember how we did it now though!! :) The doubles are so beautiful so was hoping they would re-seed & grow the same double shape! |
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