Vigorous, heat-tolerant plants reach a uniform height and are topped by excellent-quality, closely set blooms in a comprehensive array of colours. Flowers well under long days. Versatile snaps are useful as both a landscape series and as field-grown cut flowers. Planting early, the home gardener can get two crops of stems.
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Plant hollyhocks in groups of 8 to 12, setting them about two feet apart. They will grow into a stunning solid mass, making a dramatic vertical statement on a grand scale. Many gardeners like the effect of single colors in a group. To orchestrate this, buy seeds of single colors and grow them apart.
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I'm happy to be obsessing about the garden again, it beats obsessing over my manuscript, or submissions, or the economy. I had to return 7 hollyhocks, both purple cone flowers and two deutzia because there is no room for them in my tiny garden. Someone save me from my grand schemes!
I have an appointment today with my primary care physician to find out what is causing this pinched nerve -- wish me luck --
5 comments:
Good luck.
remember, poets need nerve!
I suppose gardeners do, as well.
Sorry you are hurting little sister. I think of you when I dig in the dirt.
love,
Rebecca
Thanks you two. Still waiting for the results of the x-rays and in the meantime have a bit of a reprieve due to these killer prescription drugs. Maybe I'll be able to get all these plants in the garden today. xo
Get better soon.
Thanks, Sheryl. xo
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