Hollyhock Chater's Maroon
As low as €3,90 per package
- A classic cottage Hollyhock
- Blooms from mid-summer through to autumn
- Spectacular, large, maroon, fully double, powder-puff blooms
- 50 seeds per pack
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Chater's Double Maroon Hollyhock features bold spikes of ruffled, maroon coloured double flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its large tomentose round leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.
Chater's Double Maroon Hollyhock is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.
Hollyhocks are quite high maintenance plants that will require regular care and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Disease
- Self-Seeding
Chater's Double Maroon is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Vertical Accent
- Mass Planting
- General Garden Use
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How to grow Hollyhock Chater's Double seeds
Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle into trays or 7.5cm pots. Gradually acclimatise plants to cooler conditions for a few weeks before planting out after all risk of frost 45cm (18in) apart.
Rust remedies
Hollyhocks are archetypal cottage garden plants (you often see them growing beautifully in churchyards). The cleaner, sulphur-free air that we all now enjoy, however, means that fungus on roses and hollyhocks is more common. Both plants need tinkering to be at their best.
Rust fungus forms little pustules on the underside of hollyhock basal leaves and often spreads from there up the stem. If you want to grow your hollyhocks right by a path, they need to look vigorous and healthy. The only way to guarantee this is to use fungicides. If Bordeaux mixture, a traditional copper sulphate-derived remedy, is not enough to hold rust at bay, you may need to use stronger fungicides.
If this all feels far too much like chemical warfare, ignore any rust problems and hide the foliage of your hollyhocks by putting them nearer the back of the border.
Make more plants
Hollyhocks self-sow, so once you have introduced them they should spring up of their own volition, but they will creep to the sunny, open front of the bed. Watch out for this and dig some up and put them further back out of the limelight to get a balanced sweep. Don't transfer them directly, though – they need a short spell of TLC.
Dig up self-sown seedlings and pot them into a 7cm pot. Once the roots have filled it, move them on into a slim, deep pot to accommodate the tap root.
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Fast Facts
- Article number:
- 01740-11
- Botanical Name:
- Alcea rosea
- Common Name:
- Hollyhock
- Days to germinate:
- 14-21 days
- Days to maturity:
- About 18-21 months after you sewed your seeds your hollyhocks will have reached adult size and will reward you with beautiful tall spikes of hollyhock flowers.
- Flowering time:
- June - September
- Hardiness and Longevity:
- Hardy Perennial
- Height:
- Up To 180cm
- Ideal For:
- Cottage Gardens
- Spread:
- Up To 60cm
- Sunlight:
- Full sun