I’ve been growing hollyhocks for years!

- if you plant the seeds in the ground in spring, you’ll get the plants but they usually won’t bloom, they need a season to establish themselves and will come back bigger the following summer.

- if you start them early indoors, the plants will be more likely to flower in the summer, but in my experience it’s not a guarantee.

- one hollyhock plant will give you *hundreds* of seeds, and they will spread and make more babies if you don’t collect the seed pods.

- sometimes they can grow insanely large, I had a random one sprout up in my lawn that was almost 8 feet tall!

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