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 rosea \u2013 Althaea rosea<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This native to Turkey and Palestine is vigorous upright biennial perennial grows 5-8\u2019 feet tall and just 2\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0It produces rounded roughly haired light green leaves 1 \u00bd\u201d long leaves cut into 3-7 shallowly lobes. \u00a0Long terminal racemes of single purple, pink, white, or yellow ruffled petal 3\u201d wide flowers are borne mid summer and autumn.<\/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":[21,60,22,23,31,20],"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-160254464"},"_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\/5828"}],"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=5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}