"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"R" wrote...
and before anyone says "Same to you" ;-p

Why do mine change colour every year?

Last season, pink, season before purple, this year yellow.

I dug them up 3 years ago but up they come again. I gave up the fight and
let them grow where they want to. I like them............her indoors
don't.


Obviously coming up from seed and they won't come true from seed.


My thoughts entirely as they are not perennial plants.
Here's a story about hollyhocks. My elderly next door neighbour told me she
really liked them as they gave her happy memories of childhood, but didn't
have any. Later that year I saw some hollyhocks overhanging the path near
where I work so I stole a few seeds from them. I grew 5 or 6 in pots until
they were well established and when she and her husband were out of the
house I planted them in her garden. She didn't notice that day, so when I
saw her next day I said "you now have hollyhocks!"
She was so thrilled you would have thought I'd given her the world.
I can take or leave them myself.

Tina