Q: I love hollyhocks for their colorful, crinkled flowers, and I have a row of them planted along the edge of my patio which I grew from seed. I was disappointed last year, however, as unsightly ...

Hollyhock rust is the most common fungal leaf disease of hollyhocks (Alcea rosea). Many other ornamentals such as flowering maple, rose mallow and weeds in the mallow family also are susceptible.

QIn late summer last year, I grew hollyhocks from seed. They grew well, and in the spring they started to produce flower buds. They became covered, though, in a rust-like fungus. I tried to treat the ...

No perennial garden is complete without a stand of hollyhock along a wall or at the back of the border. My favorites are the dark purplish-black, single-flowering varieties that sometimes reach 9 feet ...

Q: I have a hollyhock problem and wonder if its due to all the rain. I finally got a nice row going along the sunny side of my garage, but just as they started to bloom, the leaves became covered with ...

Q. My hollyhocks have what looks like blight. There are new leaves emerging normally. What causes this and is there any treatment for it, other than cutting out the blighted leaves?-Margaret Bitz, ...

Dear Jane: What’s wrong with my hollyhocks? Every leaf on the plants is covered with orange bumps, and the stems and blossoms are stunted. Could it be all the rain we had, or is it some kind of blight ...

Admired in the ancient gardens of China, hollyhocks are among the oldest cultivated flowers. They were brought to Europe by explorers in the 16th century. Named by the English herbalist William Turner ...

Every time I look at my hollyhocks, I have fond memories of my grandparents' farm and picking the hollyhocks to make hollyhock dolls. Hollyhocks are a robust, unfussy biennial that will prefer ...

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