For romanticism, stature, elegance and pollinator-friendly credentials, growing hollyhocks will add a very special dimension ...

Answer: Hollyhocks (Alcea) are still a favorite with children and are not difficult to grow. They provide color (red, yellow, pink, purple, and white), add height to garden beds, and screen unsightly ...

It is a late year for tomatoes and peppers, but a glorious year for hollyhocks. Hollyhocks are a tall biennial, six feet or better. They need full sun, can hide the cracks in a barns foundation, and ...

It is a late year for tomatoes and peppers, but a glorious year for hollyhocks. Hollyhocks are a tall biennial, six feet or better. They need full sun, can hide the cracks in a barns foundation, and ...

Hollyhocks are cheerful custodians of summer gardens. With their showy blooms borne on erect stalks of blooms they are old favorites and seem to be making a revival. Lubbock A-J reader N.M. of Lubbock ...

Editor's note: This column previously appeared in the July 19, 2007, Farmers' Forum. Q: Why is it that whatever kind of hollyhocks my friends and I buy, they always seem to end up being drab pink ...

There are lots of beautiful new flowers and plants that are promoted each year to the gardener by various vendors and gardening magazines. We all get taken in by these potential new contributions to ...

Early spring is a great time to start planning your plantings for the coming season. Look over photos of your garden from last year to see where blank spaces occur or where the design of your flower ...