A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 by chance, a hollyhock?

Okay, I had a cup of Hollyhock seeds, that were set outside one day early spring, and it blew away LOL!!!! I don't know where they went (and have been looking for them to come up) Any chance this is Hollyhock?



Thanks again!
Mary

Not a chance!!!!

Is it like a tree?
Shrub?

Or seperate stems...

looks like a mulberry sapling

I'm not getting a woody vibe (tree/shrub) from the photo. It looks familiar, my guess is some native weed. Kind of looks like the stuff that grows to 8' or so and we used to sword fight with in the winter when we were kids. Tall, straight, rigid and hollow. Did you have anything like that as garden debris this spring?

well shoot, Weezie! (just not at me)

LMT, I've been pulling these up for a few weeks now...and they come back like nobodys business. I wonder if they've got a taproot/runner or something. UGH just like the briars that keep coming back for more...but that's another thread.

The stalk is fuzzy and green. It pulls out of the ground reeeeeally easily. Grows super fast. It does grow like a tree, only the stalk isn't like a tree...it's like...a stalk LOL I'm sure it would grow 8', and fast. The stalk feels nasty when you grab it - fuzzy/prickly...gives me the heebee geebies LOL They snap in half pretty easily, even at their thickest point. The stalk is almost square - you can see one of the 'corners' in the first pic below. I pulled one up just for this photo shoot. LOL





They are growing in a weed patch(es), so chances are, yeah, there's a good chance they're weeds of some kind.

Sword weed!!!!

I have no idea what the name is but that was the weed we used to sword fight with in the winter.

Cut it in half, it's hollow!

They explode (grow really fast) in June (wet/warm).

Since I don't know what it is I can only guess.

"I wonder if they've got a taproot/runner or something."

They come from seed. Once you remove shade, another half dozen pops. Just stay with it and don't let them seed.

LMT, thanks! Want me to send ya some for old time's sake? I'm sure you could find someone to sword fight with

Glad to know they seed - at least I have a chance with them! Thanks!

Mary

Of course - we get supersized everythings. Couldn't just be ragweed...gotta be GIANT ragweed LOL

Giant Ragweed

I kinda remember. The stuff grew next to the woods on the south side of the garden. I cut a nice swath next too the garden but always left some of the swords growing for winter war! (Mom always wanted me to mow them down.) I think one of the neighbor girls identified it while we were munching green beans one afternoon.

HI MARY i dont know what that is growing there looks like a small tree of some sort to me. but a Hollyhock will have rounded leafes on them when they 1st start growing.but the leafe patern will change. heres a photo of a 2 year old Hollyhock plant.
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your friend in gardening.mike57

Hi Mike! Wow, I just lost my post
Thanks for that gorgeous picture - I LOVE the color! I didn't know that the leaves would change shape - that cleared up some of my confusion. I googled Hollyhocks, and some had rounded leaves, while others looked like yours - which was why I thought what I had might have been a Hollyhock. Now I know they'll only be round when they're young Thanks!
Mary

HI again mary your more than welcome.i will save you some seeds ok.i just started a bunch of new colors this year so mabe i will have lots of seeds to share.season after next it takes 2 years for them to put on blooms.your frien in gardening.mike57

Mike, that would be SO AWESOME!!! I can wait 2 years for the seeds or the blooms! Definitely worth the wait I'll PM you!

Mike, what kind of Hollyhocks do you have? my leaves are different on mine.

I planted several Hollyhocks last year and several this year, took me 3 years to even get one up. And I had several bloom this year. It was really nice to see what colors I had finally.

HI Blinda i dont know the name of the type. but its been in my family for as far back as i can rember. my granmother use to grow them when i was a kid.i am gonna be 48 in july.there a herloom pink Hollyhock thats all i know.sorry i could not be of more help to you with a name or type for them.yourfriend in gardening.mike57

Hollyhock lovers: I posted about this before, and got some suggestions as to why, but let's see what you think.....I planted seeds that I harvested from a gorgeous dark fuscia h.h. plant and when they bloomed, I got one plant of light pink, one of the dark fuscia and one of a medium pink with dark center. Another time that I planted seeds from that original fuscia, they all came up white. Any idea why the colors changed?

Now...the original plant did not come from purchased seed package...I harvested them from some plants down at at the corner of my road.

I am not an expert on such subjects. But, I would presume that it has to do with "cultivars". In your subsequent generations, the colors of the ancestors might come out in the new growth.

Like a child has red hair while both parents have brown. Maybe a great-grandparent was a redhead.