5 Tips to Grow Beautiful Hollyhocks in Your Garden!

Summary

In this transcript from Flower Patch Farmhouse, the host shares five tips for growing beautiful hollyhocks in your garden. Key insights include the importance of planting hollyhocks in full sun, staking them for support, and managing common pests like rust. The guide also discusses pruning techniques to encourage blooms and offers advice on seed collection and winter sowing. Maintaining minimal fertilization and mimicking nature with direct seeding are also emphasized to grow lush and sturdy hollyhocks. Overall, this guide is a delightful invitation to add majestic hollyhocks to your garden.

Highlights

• Ensure your hollyhocks get full sun for 6-8 hours to prevent them from leaning. 🌞
• Stake hollyhocks before they get too top-heavy and floppy. 🌿
• Watch out for rust on leaves. Trim affected ones to prevent spreading. 🔁
• Winter sowing with milk jugs can yield plenty of hollyhocks. 📦
• Pruning can lead to healthier plants with new growth, even after a rust attack. ✂️

Key Takeaways

• Hollyhocks thrive in full sun—don't let them get too shady or they'll get floppy. ☀️
• Stake your hollyhocks, especially when they get heavy with blooms. Support is the key to their upright grace. 🌸
• Beware of rust—it can get your hollyhocks down! Trim those leaves and watch them bounce back. 🔧
• Winter sowing is a fab way to get hollyhocks going; milk jugs are your secret weapon. 🥛
• Nature knows best! Direct sow in late summer when the seeds naturally fall. Emulate Mother Nature. 🌿

Overview

Imagine a garden buzzing with bees and towering hollyhocks swaying in the sun! That's the vision Flower Patch Farmhouse paints for us while sharing five vital tips to successfully grow these floral giants. From ensuring at least six sweet hours of sunshine a day to understanding when and why to stake your plants, each step is filled with insights to make your hollyhocks the talk of the garden fairies.

While hollyhocks promise tall, dreamy flowers, they come with their own set of challenges. Rust is a common adversary, but fear not as the solution is often a simple snip here and there. Pruning not only revitalizes our leafy friends but also makes way for new growth. There's empowerment in pulling out those pruners and reigniting the bloom of life within.

Embrace the chill with a tip on winter sowing—referred to as the hollyhock hack. Use milk jugs to cultivate before the cold hits full swing. Let nature pave the timeline by direct sowing in late summer, just as it would in the wild. By relying on minimal fertilization, your garden will see hollyhocks rise proud with little more than rich soil and TLC. Now, that's the art of gardening magic!

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Hollyhocks In the 'Introduction to Hollyhocks' chapter, the speaker begins by engaging with the audience outdoors near blooming hollyhocks, as evidenced by the bees buzzing around. The purpose of the chapter is to complement a blog post written by the speaker. It aims to provide the audience with effective tips and tricks for successfully growing hollyhocks.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Choosing the Right Spot for Hollyhocks Selecting an appropriate location is crucial for the successful growth of hollyhocks. These plants require full sunlight for approximately 6 to 8 hours daily. Ensuring they receive this amount of sunlight is essential in achieving healthy and thriving hollyhocks.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Supporting and Maintaining Hollyhocks The chapter provides guidance on supporting hollyhocks as they grow. It explains that hollyhocks tend to lean towards the sun or flop over, especially if they are not placed in an ideal location. The solution proposed is staking the plants to keep them upright, particularly when they become top-heavy or during rain, which can cause them to fall to the ground.
• 02:00 - 03:30: Addressing Common Pests and Diseases This chapter discusses the importance of staking Holly Hawks to prevent them from becoming top-heavy and falling over. It emphasizes that staking should be done early to support these plants as they grow and bloom from the bottom to the top. Without proper support, the plants can become stressed and damaged, especially when they are in full bloom and most vulnerable to being weighted down.
• 04:00 - 05:00: Impact of Weather on Hollyhocks The chapter titled 'Impact of Weather on Hollyhocks' discusses how weather conditions, such as unexpected rain, can affect hollyhocks by causing them to lean or 'flop' to the ground. The transcript also briefly mentions the issue of pests and diseases, specifically highlighting rust as a notable problem affecting hollyhocks.
• 06:00 - 10:00: Pruning and Deadheading Hollyhocks This chapter focuses on the gardening techniques of pruning and deadheading hollyhocks, specifically dealing with issues like Hollyhock rust. The speaker suggests removing affected leaves early to prevent further spread and notes the presence of pests like stink bugs.
• 11:00 - 13:00: Direct Sewing and Fertilization Tips The chapter offers practical advice on managing plant growth and pests, emphasizing direct sewing and fertilization. The speaker shares their strategy for dealing with affected plants by cutting off damaged parts and allowing new growth, which is often healthy and unaffected by pests. They also discuss past experiences with bugs eating seeds and their approach to solving this problem by collecting dried seeds to prevent pest issues. Overall, the tips focus on maintaining plant health through active intervention and adaptation.
• 13:00 - 13:30: Conclusion and Final Tips The author discusses a method to eliminate bugs from seeds by putting them in a baggie and freezing them, which seems to address the issue regardless of the type of bug. They mention various bugs such as weevils, aphids, and spider mites, noting that spider mites haven't affected their Hollyhocks. Overall, the author concludes that they don't face a significant bug problem.

5 Tips to Grow Beautiful Hollyhocks in Your Garden! Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey Garden friends today we are out being buzzed by a bee on the Holly Hawk to talk about Holly Hawks this is to correspond with the post I have on my blog and I just wanted to share with you some tips and tricks for growing Holly Hawks successfully [Music]
• 00:30 - 01:00 one of the first steps in growing your Holly Hawks successfully is choosing a spot that gets full sun for at least six to even 8 hours per day if you don't place your Holly Hawks in a spot that gets 68 hours per day day
• 01:00 - 01:30 they will tend to lean towards the Sun and or Flop and so if you have a spot that's not exactly perfect but you do want to grow Hol Hawks there just know that you will have to stake them to keep them upright especially when they get topheavy and I'll show you what it looks like when they start to reach for the Sun and or get too topheavy and it rains and it tends to bring them to the ground
• 01:30 - 02:00 here is a perfect example of some Holly Hawks that should have been staked up long before now and as you can see the poor things are toast well this is what happens if they're not staked and they get too topheavy they bloom from the bottom to the top and so you can see how once they are blooming towards the top they begin to get uh weed bit topheavy and then
• 02:00 - 02:30 want to flop to the ground so here's one right here perfect evidence you see the flower there at the top and the plant is beginning to lean plus we got some rain last night some unexpected rain so that is why some of these flopped let's talk about pests and diseases around here the most notable problem with Holly Hawks is rust now you
• 02:30 - 03:00 can see let me move my butterfly bush out of the way you can see what it does to the leaves you see that that is Holly Hawk rust and I usually come through and I cut off all the leaves as they're starting to develop this I just haven't made it to these ones yet um and a lot I just cut them off and that seems to not be as prevalent later I got some stink bugs on here um in the season you'll notice
• 03:00 - 03:30 these ones up here are less affected if you can see that up there I'm not sure but sometimes um in the spring if it's really bad I'll just cut them off and they refesh new growth and the new growth won't always be affected and or I just let them grow and I cut off the affected leaves and then let let them go ahead and Bloom also um pests pests I don't have a lot of trouble with I used to have some kind of bug that would eat the seeds um and get in that but all I would do would be to collect the dried
• 03:30 - 04:00 seeds that had made it I would put them in a baggie and throw them in the freezer and that would kill out the bug so then the next seeds didn't have as the bugs in them and so that is I don't even know what it was it could have been a weevil or something that was affecting it but some say aphids um I know spider might have been a problem but I they haven't seem to affected my Holly Hawks uh so I don't get plagued with mini bugs
• 04:00 - 04:30 even though I had a couple they look like stink bugs or squash bugs on there but they're not on my squash so I'm not sure exactly what they may be of the rain we had last night we don't normally get rain in the summer in August especially um but we're being affected by Hurricane Hillary here in Northern California and though we don't expect any flooding or anything here we are getting some rain and last night we got some winds so I'll show you the damage from that in a minute so this is the
• 04:30 - 05:00 damage I was telling you about from the winds last night as Hillary's moving in to California so we had winds and rain fortunately there's not a whole lot in there right now cuz I've been cleaning it out um getting it ready and we are getting ready to repair it um so it's all good but it was kind of a shocker to wake up and see that this morning at least it's not snowing I was just looking back here behind this bench there was I had these they're called
• 05:00 - 05:30 peaches and dreams Hol Hawks last year and they were this fluffy peachy pink color just like Palm poms on a stick whipping cream um and I was curious to see if they had put out any seeds before the Gophers ate them I have a real problem with Gophers you know that and last year they came through and decimated about this time of year all of my Holly Hawks this year I haven't had an issue with them so far but that doesn't mean they won't come through and make a problem I think I'm going to get
• 05:30 - 06:00 seeds from all the ones I have right now but they're all singles and I'm going to go ahead and get some seeds for the doubles um there's chaters mix there's the peaches and dreams there's all kinds of name doubles they're not as great for the pollinators as the singles but they are beautiful to have in your garden and just such an elegant looking flower and they they create height and I liked that in this section behind me winter sewing is a great way
• 06:00 - 06:30 to start Hol Hawks you can get a whole bunch in I use the milk jugs and or water jugs um you can sew practically an entire packet in it and then divide them out into separate individual little pots once they get of a size to transplant but that is a super easy way to get a lot and or you can wait until it's time to put them out in the garden and do it that way I also like indoor sewing but I have such limited space for the amount
• 06:30 - 07:00 that I do that um Hol Hawk since they grow so easily directly in the soil and or winter sewing I don't usually start them indoors but you may wish to so I've crawled back in here to talk about Dead Heading and or pruning now this these two three pink Holly Hawks is still blooming a little bit but it's flopping terribly so I want to I wanted to save seeds from this one but I can it save seeds from the Pinkins in the front
• 07:00 - 07:30 garden the front garden where um I started this video so I'm just going to take my pruners I brought the big loppers just in case these were big but I think they're not they're going to be fine now I'm going to take them down to probably 3 ft tall and I'm just going to cut them back since they are just flopping so terribly and not really adding anything pretty to the garden and
• 07:30 - 08:00 and I'm going to go ahead and cut off all these affected leaves now there is I don't know if it's one PL plant with it looks like one plant with several stocks that's what it looks like so like I said I'm just cutting off the nasty leaves I have it tied up to the butterfly bush um I think I can untie
• 08:00 - 08:30 that and I'll use this for something different throwing those out over there I'm cutting off where the old blooms had been see it's got the little seed pods on it those seeds are not viable yet so I'm going to just chop these ones further back I'll come back and pick up all those and I will show you a plant or a Hol Hawk that I had done this to
• 08:30 - 09:00 a couple weeks ago maybe even just one week ago and what it's doing at this moment now this will I will get another balloom out of this and it won't be as tall but it will be pretty and since this is in a spot what is this oh it's part of my butterfly bush let me cut that out cuz it keeps getting in the way and I don't like it anyways so this will put out new growth and will bloom again just shorter
• 09:00 - 09:30 and that's okay cuz where it's at it will still be visible and still be beautiful so that's how I prune back um the Hol hawk in the summer in the spring I do it when it's very short it's Rusty um and then I get new growth and I will show you another one as I said that I did this a while back and I'll show you how healthy the leaves are and it was full of rust when I pruned it back
• 09:30 - 10:00 forgive my ugly hoses here in the way I'm still setting up my irrigation system but this is the one this is a beautiful I think it's a white one I'm not sure what no maybe it was red I can't remember I'll have to look at a past video whether it was in but this one I pruned back probably a week maybe two ago and look how it's ref fleshed new leaves new healthy leaves there's not any sign of rust on any of them let me scoot you down a little more to show you all the way to the base
• 10:00 - 10:30 no rust but also if you will notice there are blooms beginning right in here so this will Bloom it'll Bloom about this height it may get a little bit taller but that's fine at this height it's still pretty I didn't want a holly Hawk here I just let it go because well I just did sometimes I do that I let them Bloom as they will so um that is how I dead head and prune I I mentioned
• 10:30 - 11:00 putting some Holly Hawk starting some Hol Hawk seeds in the back but I thought also along this fence in patches it would create height I do have climbing roses uh near the posts you see sticking up I'm still planning on putting a piece of wood across the top of those posts connecting them and have the Roses climb up over that but until those Roses get tall enough I really think that some pretty pink and white Hol Hawks or even
• 11:00 - 11:30 the black ones there's a black one that is a perennial Hol Hawk that is just gorgeous and I think that drama along here further hiding our vehicles which we park up here uh would be just gorgeous and when I start seeds I put three or four in a spot in the direct SE them in the soil and then let them come up I do it in the fall or late summer I should say late summer rather than fall because you notice a lot of my Holly
• 11:30 - 12:00 Hawks are going to seed therefore if they drop their seeds this would be the time of the year nature plants them and I get so many volunteers that I figure if that's when Nature thinks it needs to be done then so will I and then I've had the most success in mimicking nature in seeding plants in my garden direct sewing so that's one of the spots I'm thinking of putting some Holly Hawks
• 12:00 - 12:30 so in my garden I've never really specifically fertilized Holly Hawks now sometimes when you over fertilize and a lot of times many gardeners do um it promotes such Lush tender growth that that's also you'll get a less sturdy plant so you want to be judicious in what you do for me I compost and I leave it at that with the Holly Hawks I do not fertilize through the season and I get
• 12:30 - 13:00 beautiful growth so um I can't tell you one way or another whether you need to fertilize if you've regenerated your soil as I said before fertilization is not usually necessary so there you have it my friends how to grow beautiful Hol Hawks in your garden how to treat some problems you may have and I hope you enjoy at adding Hol Hawks to your
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