For the past 3 years I have been lovingly cultivating,planting,weeding,and nurturing a single piece of root from a wild Hollyhock plant, why 3 years? because the first 2 years my little flower garden looked like crap as I tended to that little root nursing it to grow a single plant,then taking the seed pods from it and starting new plants.
it took 3 years to get that little piece of root to burst and bloom and turn into this !
I have been busy weeding and clipping the bottom leaves that yellow off and promoting a thicker lush growth
I have had to contain them by digging down about a foot along the border of the flower garden and building a buried brick wall, then placing railroad ties over that (mostly for definition and to stop our son from running the mower into the hollyhocks.
to add strength to the plants and prevent them from breaking during windstorms (which happen frequently here), I added tomato cages to the base and went to the dollar store and bought bamboo sticks , and staked each plant stalk.
Hollyhocks grow like wildfire and if you dont contain them they will spread rapidly and over run your yard, they dont require much of anything really or even good soil, mine are growing in a flowerbed that consists of gravel sand and yellow clay,I throw kitchen scraps into the flower beds and let them naturally decompose,I water once or twice per summer usually I just let the rains take care of it. Hollyhocks are a hearty tough plant that really require little care (if your lazy or lack time),I however tend to my hollyhocks because I enjoy doing so and by paying attention I can get them growing where I want them,and keep them there.
The front flower garden is a work in progress, I have some ornamental grass, a single transplanted wild tiger lily, and this,an unidentified flower, at first I thought it was a sunflower as up until this year I used the front flower bed to grow nothing but sunflowers, as it turns out it is not a sunflower, I believe it is a brown eyed suzie , but at the moment I can not be sure, so for now it is a mystery flower.
well thats about all for now, more pictures to come as I find more wild plants to transplant
Butch
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