children’s hollyhock garden

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Create a Children’s Hollyhock Garden

March 5, 2016 Gardening Tips, Gardening With Children, Summer Perennials

children's hollyhock garden hideaway playhouse

One of the most delightful projects you can try if you are a perennial gardener, is creating a children’s hollyhock garden. Using these tall, long-blooming perennials provides a delightful “screen” allowing children to have a “hideout” where they can play, and imagine, undisturbed. And the best part is that a child can help create the garden! How to Plant your Children’s Hollyhock Garden If you already have hollyhocks in your garden, have a child or grandchild help you harvest a handful of dried blooms and open the seed pods. Because hollyhock seeds are large, small hands can easily shake them loose. If you are starting in springtime, simply use purchased...

Hollyhock – Alcea

February 29, 2016 Gardening With Children, Summer Perennials

hollyhock-alcea

A Hollyhock Garden is a Fairy Paradise Alcea, or Hollyhock is traditionally considered a nostalgic cottage garden perennial but in the high-valley western gardens they are considered a staple. Once these tall hardy biennials drop seeds, they will generate future hollyhocks for as long as a gardener wants them. Hollyhocks are still the original species plants that produce seed freely and add a riot of summer color to gardens. Not all of my seeds will germinate and some may cross pollinate and produce flowers of a different shade or color than the Mother plant. Hollyhocks grow tall–up to six-feet– so they look especially handsome along a fence line or in...