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Surprisingly, this is one of my husbands favorite flowers in our garden. I don’t think that when I started the garden that I expected him to be overly excited about any of the plants – well maybe the ones he could eat like the strawberries and the raspberries, which he does enjoy.

The first flower that he got excited about was the sunflower. Now we MUST have sunflowers every year. Then when the hollyhocks came along and started to bloom that too was another must. I remember one year it wasn’t looking like any would bloom. He was so disappointed, but then one did grow some stalks and bloom.

Now I make sure there are some new seedlings growing every year so we always have hollyhocks. Remember they are a biannual flower – growing in the first year and blooming in the second. So I must always have a crop growing each year so that my husband can have his hollyhocks.

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