Sitting down with a cup of tea after my gardening labours, I found yellow nearly open flower buds on one of our many hollyhock plants.. This holly hock is growing right against a south facing wall so it may think it lives in the south of France.
Hollyhocks are lovely plants eh seakale. We've got a good number this year,really lush leaves and I can't wait until they all bloom.Sounds like you have one there that is already
school (only 13 pupils) - a small flint building with a tarmac playground. Every summer hollyhocks would appear growing in the cracks between the school building walls and the tarmac - they grew huge and bloomed all summer long - they never got rust - I think that the fact that there was no soil beneath them was the reason why - any spores that fell to the ground got washed away by the winter rains.
The school looked beautiful, yellow, pink, apricot and purple single blooms against the mottled grey flint
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That sounds gorgeous Dove.I find that self sown hollyhocks growing in cracks between man-made surfaces always seem to flourish.Well I suppose that would apply to most plants,the moisture is retained in the soil better.
You're in Norfolk aren't you? I so love those cobbled walls on houses and churches,it is distinctive and gives regions of the UK their own special character
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Hollyhocks are lovely plants eh seakale. We've got a good number this year,really lush leaves and I can't wait until they all bloom.Sounds like you have one there that is already
When I was very young I went to the local village
school (only 13 pupils) - a small flint building with a tarmac playground. Every summer hollyhocks would appear growing in the cracks between the school building walls and the tarmac - they grew huge and bloomed all summer long - they never got rust - I think that the fact that there was no soil beneath them was the reason why - any spores that fell to the ground got washed away by the winter rains.
The school looked beautiful, yellow, pink, apricot and purple single blooms against the mottled grey flint
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That sounds gorgeous Dove.I find that self sown hollyhocks growing in cracks between man-made surfaces always seem to flourish.Well I suppose that would apply to most plants,the moisture is retained in the soil better.
You're in Norfolk aren't you? I so love those cobbled walls on houses and churches,it is distinctive and gives regions of the UK their own special character