Hollyhock
By Lou Paun
Hollyhock (Althaea Rosea) - One of the best hardy plants, valuable for bold and stately effects among or near flower-beds. Cottage bee-keepers would do well to grow a few Hollyhocks, for bees are fond of their flowers.
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Hollyhock (Syn Alcea × Althaea Parkallee)
Alcalthaea suffrutescens 'Parkallee'
Genus: Alcalthaea
Species: suffrutescens
Cultivar: 'Parkallee' ...
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Hollyhock is an Asian native that was introduced to the West during the early days of Chinese trade, probably about the beginning of the Christian era. The Crusaders brought the single flowered form back to England during the middle ages.
Hollyhock, Althea rosea
A classic old-fashioned flower, Hollyhocks are informal, yet elegant. The 5- to 8-foot-tall flower spikes have 3- to 6-inch-wide, saucer-shaped, single, semi-double or double flowers. Butterflies love them.
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This hollyhock variety has rich, velvet red flowers, striped with black and with a creamy heart.
Hollyhock
Hollyhock, Alcea rosea, or Althaea rosea, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the family Malvaceae ...
Hollyhocks are natives of Asia. They have heart shaped leaves and bloom from July to September in most areas. These tall flowers make great backgrounds, borders, or even fences.
Mountain Hollyhock
Iliamna rivularis (Dougl. ex Hook.) Greene
Family: Malvaceae, Mallow
Genus: Iliamna ...
Ilex (Canary Hollyhock)
Ilex or Hollyhocks are evergreen shrubs to small trees with brilliant, dark green foliage with usually serrated margins and most decorative bright red to purplish-red berries on older plants.
I planted these hollyhocks three years ago. They stay green all winter long. In the spring they grow stocks of flower buds. They start blooming in Mid-May. The flowers bloom from the bottom of the stock, and then move upwards.
( Powder Puff Hollyhock )
An old-fashioned favorite that demands attention. Excellent tall background plant for the perennial border. Large, double flowers come in white, and pink. Leaves are slightly hairy, light green and rounded with 3 to 7 lobes.
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea): Hollyhock is one of the most popular old-fashioned cottage garden flowers, with a distinctive upright pillar of large, brightly colored blooms for a few short weeks in summer.
Wild Hollyhock
Checker Mallow
Melanthiaceae
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Alcea (Hollyhock)
An old-fashioned plant, really a self-seeding biennial, that looks like it belongs in a Beatrix Potter book. garden. The two metre (7 foot) upright spikes add vertical interest in the garden. Attractive to bees and butterflies.
Hollyhock (Alcea) Plant Profile
A strong accent plant reminiscent of heirloom gardens and cottage borders, Hollyhocks are a charming addition to any garden space. See how to cultivate the hollyhock.
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Hollyhocks are very drought resistant, and do well in full sun locations that might be too hot or dry for other plants. They produce large, flat coin-shaped seeds (1/2" diameter) that seem to grow easily wherever they drop.
The hollyhock stems grow as tall as a person and cover themselves from top to bottom in big beautiful blossoms in a range of colors. Click to download a large version of these hollyhocks to display on your computer desktop.
If you have seen a hollyhock or hibiscus flower, then you can recognize the Mallow family.
Alcea rugosa (Hollyhock)
Alstroemeria sp. and cultivars (Princess Lilies)
Anisacanthus wrightii (Texas Firecracker)
Aquilegia sp. and cultivars (Columbine)
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)
Begonia sp. (Hardy Begonia) ...
hollyhock Alcea rosea
hop clover Trifolium aureum
horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum
Hottentot-fig; iceplant; sea fig Carpobrotus edulis
houndstoungue Cynoglossum officinale
hydrilla Hydrilla verticillata
iguanatail Sansevieria hyacinthoides ...
Caesarweed is a pantropical weed, having pink flowers like miniature hollyhocks. Many taxonomists now believe it evolved somewhere in Asia. Caesarweed grows to 2 meters in height.
ALTHAEA Commonly known as the Hollyhock. Grows 2 to 2.5 m (6 to 8 ft) high bearing large single or double flowers coloured pink, white, apricot, cream, salmon or red.
Features copper-red foliage and dinner plate-sized, 5-petaled, hollyhock-like flowers (10-12" diameter) which are among the largest flowers produced by any perennial which is hardy to the St. Louis area.
They include gaillardia, gazania (some flower all year), gerbera, geraniums, gladioli, globe amaranth, globe gilia, godetia, gypsofila, hibiscus (variegated and other, as bushes or hedges), hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangeas, ...
SPECIES 3: HIBISCUS SPLENDENS Native Hollyhock Tree
Hibiscus splendens is found only in Australia. It was described by Charles Fraser in 1928. He wrote of it "This I consider the king of all the Australian plants I have seen.
Referring to the annual type, Lisa Crowning, horticulturist at Thompson & Morgan, says it's the large, lustrous, hollyhocklike flowers that really excite people.
the anther has a single cavity, and becomes unilocular, or monothecal, or dimidiate, either by the disappearance of the partition between the two lobes, or by the abortion of one of its lobes, as in Styphelia laeta and Althaea officinalis (hollyhock).
A typical selection pf perennials includes many-colored Delphiniums, Hollyhocks, Giant Oriental Poppies, Fox-gloves, the rich yellow Coreopsis, Phlox, Canterbury Bells, large-flowering Sweet Williams, Columbines, Forget-me-nots, Shasta Daisies, ...
Other Malvaceae species in garden culture include Abutilon, the Chinese lantern or flowering maple, elegant in both leaf and flower and well-adapted to mild and temperate gardens; Alcea rosea (syn Althaea rosea), the popular hollyhock; ...
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Althea rosea synonym of Alcea rosea (Hollyhock)
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To soothe and help the passage of the irritating substance, it is also often combined with a demulcent such as Comfrey, Marshmallow or Sweet Flagroot, Hollyhock or Mullein flowers, Gum Arabic, or Slippery Elm Bark.
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Other flowers to mix in potpourri include: anmones, ageratum, azalea, bachelor buttons, calendulas, celosia, scented geranium foliage, hibiscus, hollyhock, hyacinths, lirope, marigolds, pansies, ranunculus (buttercups), salvia, statice, stock, ...
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Trotzdem gibt es einige europäische Namen, die die japanischen Kanji wörtlich als 'Bergstockrose' übertragen, z.B. niederländisch bergstokroos und englisch mountain hollyhock.
People who walk long distances can place fresh leaves in their shoes, to avoid blistering or can bathe their feet in roadweed infusion mixed with hollyhock and field horsetail.
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that "Party Girl" has got to be one of the shittiest cultivar names of any flower, Granny Artemis was attracted to the spring foliage, & took for granted that the flower would be nice too, being generally described as looking like pink hollyhocks ...
Mostly a tropical family there are many members of the Mallow family in North America including such cultivated plants as Hollyhock, Okra and Cotton.
The flowers differ with each variety, but generally resemble a cross between a Hybiscus and a Hollyhock, and are available in many colors ranging from white to reds, yellow, orange or shades of blue.
In rural France, the young tops and leaves are eaten in salads for their kidney-stimulating effects. All members of the mallow family, such as the hollyhock and common mallow, have similar properties and can be used medicinally.
Marshmallow, hollyhock (Althaea officinalis, Alcea officinalis)
Masdevallia (Masdevallia species) ...
 See also: Holly, Green, Pink, May, Rose
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