I have no luck with hollyhocks. I can't imagine why....not far from my house there's a farm with a HUGE "hedge" of hollyhocks that faithfully reappear every year. I've taken seed from that patch (with permission), I've bought seed...no luck. I may get a few seeds to germinate, I may get a plant or two, but they never progress to the second year and flower. I'm hopeful this year though....I've got two plants that came up from seeding last fall (out of a good handful of seeds!) and if they can get thru the winter, I may actually have flowers next year! I should seed more this fall in case these are truly biennial.
Give Blind Pew a kiss from me....my friend recently rescued a very sick little kitten whose eyes were so badly infected that at my first examination of the kit I thought he'd be lucky to have any sight at all. We've been treating him for a week now and happy to report the "good" eye is fully open and looks like it will be fine, the "bad" eye is looking better but I think will be blind.
