Maybe you’ve spent hours lovingly caring for your lawn and it still doesn’t look like the sweeping lawn of an English manor house. Perhaps you’re simply using the wrong type of lawnmower. If you’d like your lawn to look like you’ve painstakingly cut it with shears, consider using a cylinder lawnmower. The cylinder mowers of today have come a long way from your parent’s heavy manual mower that you reluctantly had to push around the…
Growing Hollyhocks is a wonderful goal as a gardener. If you treat them well you can get them to grow up to a very impressive 3 metres tall and tower above any other part of your garden, adding a stunning and visually appealing vertical element. As long as you find the right location in your garden and you offer them a little bit of care, you can grow beautiful Hollyhocks that continue to appear year…
One of the best ways to grow Hollyhocks is to use the seeds that a successful plant already provides you with or buy some quality seeds from a seed specialist. If you have successfully grown Hollyhocks in your garden, you know that they require very little maintenance except for spraying them to protect them from Hollyhock rust and that, if left to their own devices, they will live for about 2 or 3 years and…
Hollyhocks are grown for the vibrant flowers that appear on the top of the large flower stalks. As a herbaceous perennial it’s commonly grown as an annual, and they are great for attracting bees and butterflies. They are also resistant to verticillium wilt. However, that does not mean that Hollyhocks don’t have their fair share of other diseases and we start our guide on the most common and sadly the most destructive disease, Hollyhock rust.…
Hollyhocks are fantastic plants, especially for cottage gardens but unfortunately, it often has to combat Hollyhock rust, and unfortunately, they can quickly become overwhelmed with it. It can also be very hard to prevent, with them often needing to be sprayed 2 times a week when they are actively growing to try and prevent it. What is Hollyhock rust? Hollyhock rust is a type of fungal disease and it spreads via airborne spores. This is…
