A group of pink, white, and red hollyhocks stand tall in bloom near a building. - JULIA Culp/Shutterstock Hollyhocks are wonderful summer-blooming flowers that look right at home in cottage gardens ...

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 was a time in America when delicate ladies were reluctant to ask for directions to the outhouse. To save them this embarrassment, it was common practice to plant hollyhocks around the facility.

Question: My hollyhocks are not blooming. They were planted from seed, and instead of forming a tall flower stalk, they send out many small bushy stems. What went wrong? Answer: Hollyhocks are a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Old-fashioned flowers are so thoroughly back in vogue that it would be hard to say which is the most popular. At or near the top of the list, though, would have to be the hollyhock, a resplendently ...

A white biennial plant in the sun - Saiglobalnt/Getty Images When browsing plants at a nursery, you will likely see two types of plants listed: annual and perennial. However, there's another kind of ...

Q. As a child, I remember passing a vacant lot full of beautiful, but completely untended, hollyhocks. When I try to grow them in my garden, I get short stubby bunches of leaves. My vegetables do fine ...