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Favorite of true English gardens. Old-fashioned outhouse hollyhocks. Single flowers in pink, salmon, rose, red, summer - frost. (In the 1930s, the classic, stately, single Hollyhock, planted in the early 1700s by John Custis of Williamsburg, VA, gave way to shorter hybrids and singles soon became hard to find.) Prolific blooms, self-sows readily. Charming. Approx 35 seeds per pack
Biennial
Historical tidbit.... Old fashioned hollyhocks grew tall enough to disguise an outhouse...so were called "outhouse hollyhocks". Since outhouses were an unmentionable subject in Victorian days, visitors knew to look for the hollyhocks when seeking the outhouse, rather than asking where it was!
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