Fiesta Time Hollyhock

Alcea rosea 'Fiesta Time'


$21.00

Beautiful, double cerise flowers with rose pink ruffled edges on a more compact plant; this biennial is tolerant to the natural toxin formed by the roots of Black Walnut, but can be susceptible to Japanese beetles; plant in full sun for better growth

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Fiesta Time Hollyhock is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

Planting and Growing

and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. The flower stalks can be weak and so it may require staking in exposed sites or excessively rich soils. It grows at a fast rate, and tends to be biennial, and then dies. However, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!, Fiesta Time Hollyhock will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, flowers the second, meaning that it puts on vegetative growth the first year, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, this species tends to self-seed and will thereby endure for years in the garden if allowed. As an herbaceous perennial, with a spread of 15 inches. It tends to be leggy, with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 24"(3'withtheflowers)Hx15"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are crimson

Flowers from mid to late summer

Attracts hummingbirds

Zone 2b

Likes average to moist soil