I need some advice on my Hollyhocks! Can you help me?

Put a teaspoon of ordinary dish soap with a tablespoon or so of canola oil into a quart sprayer bottle with water. Spray all areas of your Hollyhocks. The soap will suffocate the insects and both the soap and oil will help it cling to the plants longer. I use this on my leaf vegetables but add lemon juice to to deter rabbits also. Spray again after a heavy rain and water your plants from the bottom so as not to rinse off your spray.

P. S. I love Hollyhocks, my Grandmother used to grow the nicest ones I have ever seen. I would love to see them again. Good luck with yours.

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This article is about the flower. For the J. League team, see Mito Hollyhock

Hollyhock

Alcea setosa

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Rosids

Order: Malvales

Family: Malvaceae

Genus: Alcea

Species

See text.

Alcea setosa חוטמית זיפניתThe hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea (Ál-ce-a) in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia. They are biennial or short-lived perennial plants growing to 3.5 m tall, with broad, rounded, palmately lobed leaves and numerous flowers, pink or yellow in the wild species, on the erect central stem.

Alcea species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix quadrigemina and the Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).

Contents

1 Species

2 Uses

3 Culture

4 External links

[edit] Species

About 60 species, including:

Alcea biennis

Alcea ficifolia - Antwerp Hollyhock

Alcea heldreichii

Alcea lavateriflora

Alcea pallida

Alcea rosea - Common Hollyhock

Alcea rugosa

Alcea setosa - Bristly Hollyhock

Alcea striata

Alcea sulphurea

[edit] Uses

Hollyhocks are popular garden ornamental plants, cultivars selected, particularly from A. rosea. The flowers have been selected for variations in colour, with dark purple, red and white-flowered plants available in addition to the colours found in wild plants.

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. While an individual plant might only live a handful of years, by that time chances are good it will leave plenty of descendants. They have very long taproots which make transplanting difficult.

[edit] Culture

Remains of hollyhocks have been found in a Neanderthal burial site at Shanidar.

The flower was incorporated into the official seal of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan, and through this influence has maintained importance in modern Japanese culture. For example, it has become the name and symbol of a professional soccer club located in a city formerly led by the Tokugawa family. In addition, in the Japanese graphic novels Lone Wolf and Cub the seal is worn by Ogami Itto, the protagonist of the series, whilst he is in service to the shogun.

A hollyhock flower

A pink flowered hollyhock