Hollyhocks!!!!!!!!

This is a nice closeup of the group of pink Hollyhock in bloom.  I did not know the colors when I planted them, all I had was 10 tubers in a package that said mixed colors.  I was hoping for some yellow, but did not get that color in the mix.

There has not been many photos over the past 10 days.  It has been so HOT, too hot to be walking to the garden.  Yes, it has really been that hot, and it is continuing this week.  Lots of rain, so I've not had to do much watering.  The humidity has been really high too.    I am not really a hot, summer type person.  I much prefer the cooler weather of late September and October.

Hollyhocks in bloom

The top phots not only shows the Hollyhock in good bloom, but you can see my white delphinium.  You can see the purple delphinium leaning from all our rain lately.  It got really, really tall.  Did not expect the height from this plant for this year!  I see that I have one Hollyhock plant that is a "single bloom" plant, all the others are what is called "doubles". The Hollyhock are in colors of white, red and pink.

The middle photo shows the pink Hollyhocks and you can see some of my Blazing Star in bloom.

The bottom photo shows the pink single flower Hollyhock.  If you click on the photo, then click on it again, you can get a good close up picture and see all the details of the flowers.

Long View of my Garden

This is a long view of the back of my garden.  Can you spot the Hollyhocks at the very back.  The garden with all the sticks belongs to the garden right next to me, that only has veggies.

Hollyhock starting to send up buds

This is not the most exciting picture, but the Hollyhocks are all starting to send out buds.  I planted nine of them across the back of the garden, they all came up, and all are starting to bud up now.

Hollyhock

This is one of 10 Hollyhock plants I have across the back of my garden to hopefully form a fence type barrier.  The tubers were mixed colors so it will be a wait and see to see what I get.  You can see my delphiniums in the lower left corner of the picture.  The delphiniums are young plants and probably will not give me blooms this year. My Iowa friend  Gloria had given me seeds from her Black Hollyhock a couple years ago, they did not germinate.