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Hollyhocks - Clay Soil and Rust Resistance
In message , Rusty Hinge
2 writes The message from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains these words: Hollyhocks are annuals, biennials or short-lived perennials. From around 1944 until we left the house in 1950 there were several hollyhock plants beside our porch. Plants, not a series of them. They same colours in the same spots. Six years probably still counts as short-lived, but it's not bad for a hollyhock in my experience. (OTOH, the Hollyhock Border at Powis Castle has been there a few years, and I suspect that the turnover of plants there is fairly low.) Then again, IIRC, you've said that Malva sylvestris is rather more perennial in your neck of the woods than mine. /snip/ I haven't succeeded in growing *any* hollyhocks in heavy, wet, clay, including non-Ficifolia types. I have offered Ollie's Mum some seeds from a hollyhock which I found growing in heavy Norfolk soil - you could almost make pots with it. I suspect that my problem may be as much wet as clay. But I've done better growing them in pots, or in the allotment (which is still a bit wet (in winter) and heavy, but nowhere as bad as my garden). -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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