Alcea \u2013 Hollyhock<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013<\/p>\n

There are about 60 species of biennials and short-lived perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are native to regions of temperate Europe and Asia. \u00a0It was brought to England from the Holy land during the Crusades. \u00a0Usually occurring in rocky sites and open dry grassy wasteland. \u00a0They can grow 8\u2019 feet tall bearing in summer slender inflorescences of funnel shaped 5 petal brightly colored flowers. \u00a0The flowers attract bees and butterflies.<\/p>\n

There quite frost hardy and will grow in moderately fertile well-drained soil in full sun. \u00a0They may require stalking.<\/p>\n

Prone to hollyhock rust, as well as bacterial fungal leaf spots, fungal leaf spots. \u00a0Southern blight, cut worms, slugs, Mallow flea beetles, aphids, Japanese beetles, and capsid bugs<\/i><\/em>\u00a0are sometimes are problem.<\/p>\n

Alcea ficifolia<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This erect biennial or short-lived perennial is native to Siberia and grows 8\u2019 feet tall and 3\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0It bears rounded 5-7 lobed conspicuously veined rough mid green leaves that are 7\u201d long. \u00a0Terminal spikes of single sometimes-double yellow flowers 3\u201d wide are borne in summer.<\/p>\n

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Alcea \u2013 Hollyhock\u00a0\u2013 There are about 60 species of biennials and short-lived perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are native to regions of temperate Europe and Asia. \u00a0It was brought to England from the Holy land during the Crusades. \u00a0Usually occurring in rocky sites and open dry grassy wasteland. \u00a0They can grow 8\u2019 feet tall bearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,60,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254462"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}