8/11/2023 0 Comments Planting hollyhock seedlings![]() ![]() I also learned that the Hollyhock seeds need to be frosted, and that hollyhocks do not like competition. I did my research and found that hollyhocks like tough conditions, and lots of sun and ideally like to be against a sunny warm wall as they are tall and this affords them shelter. My husband was very sceptical as to whether we had the right conditions as there were none growing in the cottage garden at the time we purchased the house and none in the neighbour's gardens even though we are just off Blakeney high street on Coronation lane. In 2004 we bought Gardeners Cottage In Blakeney, and I decided that now I would grow my hollyhocks. If you want to grow hollyhocks from seed, prepare to be patient I continued to come to Norfolk every holiday as we had fallen in love with this beautiful county and every summer I marvelled at the wonderful hollyhocks that we saw everywhere we went. I have to admit that after that i gave up, and decided hollyhocks would just not grow in Nottinghamshire and that they were obviously a Norfolk plant. The next year I purchased some hollyhock seed and sowed it as per the instructions and still was not successful. On my return home from my holiday I went to our local garden centre and purchased some pot grown ones to grow in my own garden, but sadly they did not thrive and eventually died. They were growing out of every conceivable crevice and crack in the pavement, and as a very keen cottage gardener, I wanted to be able to grow them in my own garden in Nottinghamshire. The first time I came to Blakeney on the North Norfolk coast on a camping holiday about 16 years ago, I was blown away by the sight of so many glorious hollyhocks flowering up and down Blakeney high street against the cottages. ![]() Our love affair with the magnificent cottage garden flower, the hollyhock, started in Blakeney on North Norfolk coast ![]()
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