I'M IN LOVE WITH HOLLYHOCKS....SIGH

They are really pretty, the ornaments aren't bad either!

How pretty :) I want to live there!

Mine are just beginning to burst their buds.. They look a lot darker than they are supposed to be. I hope they stay that way.

Great scene

Thanks all, I just loved this window, I would have brought it home if I could. I'd love to do a house tour too of the 400 and odd year old farm house. This is only an outbuilding! Pimp old boy, I need to know all about hollyhocks (a dark craving) how do you cope with the dreaded rust? I need something which won't harm any creatures. Have you any pics of your hollyhocks?:-)

Oh wow :)

Well this year is the first time I have NOT had rust on them BA. Usually it is a case of putting up with it, you can pick the leaves off as it appears but then you end up with a bare plant. Be nice to know if someone does have a rust remedy out there.

I've read about Bordeaux mix, but not sure if it harms anything. I'm waiting for an Alcalthaea to flower which, so it says, is a rust free hollyhock, 1.2m high. I'll put a pic on when it flowers. There are a few of these Alcea crosses I believe, this is possibly Parkallee (forgotten) which should flower from June to November, being sterile, but I would really love some like those soft pink in the pic and that gorgeous dark pink one to the left of the window in blog pic :-)

Aaaaah me too Bornagain, lovely picture :-)
I grow one called Antwerp mixed thats supposed to be rust resistant, they still seem to get it in their second year though, although not as bad as some I've seen.

I've got an alcalthaea ready to flower soon, supposed to be rust rfee hollyhock cross ...we'll see. Have you put any pics on of yours Simbad?:-)