Las Vegas Hollyhock
Alcea 'Las Vegas'
$21.00
Like the lights of Vegas, the large, saucer shaped flowers appear in a multitude of colors, red, copper, brown, yellow, pink, and white; a great vertical accent for the garden or border
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
Las Vegas 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
although because it is a hybrid, 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!, flowers the second, Las Vegas Hollyhock will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity extending to 6 feet tall with the flowers, meaning that it puts on vegetative growth the first year, not requiring facer plants in front. 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, the seedlings may not come true to type. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, this variety tends to self-seed and will thereby endure for years in the garden if allowed, with a spread of 18 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to 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 3'(6'withtheflowers)Hx18"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are white
Flowers from early to late summer
Attracts butterflies; hummingbirds
Zone 3a
Likes average to moist soil