Needing some Zebrina hollyhock seeds

If anyone has extra zebrina hollyhock seeds, I would glady pay postage for some of them. I don't have much in the way of seeds to trade, but I could certainly collect some from the abundance of wildflowers in my area this spring and summer.

I would be glad to pay postage now and also pay postage when I gather your trade seeds if you would like some wildflower seeds.

I have two nice zebrina hollyhocks that didn't bloom at all this year due to the excessive heat and drought. So, of course, no flowers means no seeds. I have had great luck selling the small plants, so I would love to have a tray or two 50/100 to plant for selling this spring. Plants that I sell are very helpful to our social security budget and heck, I love growing them anyway!


Charlene

This message was edited Jan 5, 2010 2:22 PM

No seeds, but I have a volunteer plant growing in my front flower bed. I grew them about 3 years ago and am still pulling out volunteers. The one in your picture is gorgeous!

Charlene, I have some seeds from 2006 so I don't know how viable they are, but you can have them if you want them.
Josephine.

Stephanie,

You should pot up your volunteers as they make great trades. That is how I got my first one. I got it from Melva at a spring RU in Arlington. They do make beautiful plants.

Charlene

Oh by the way, these plants are biennial, so they don't bloom the first year.

Charlene, I've done that with most of the volunteers I've had. They do make excellent trades. Mine just don't do well with the heat, then the develop rust and then it's just downhill from there.

Well Josephine, that explains why I didn't get blooms. My first plant from Melva, gave me some seeds and then it just up and died. I planted the seeds and kept two plants and sold the rest of the plants. This year, I put one of the two plants in the gh and left the other one planted outside. They are both beautiful and quite healthy. I am feeling a little guilty that I didn't tell the people that bought my plants that they wouldn't bloom the first year. I just didn't know that, because the one Melva gave me must have been on it's second year as it bloomed the same season she gave it to me. You always know so much!! I love learning from you.

Charlene

Piping in here. I wintersowed 'zebrina' last Feb. and had blooms the first year. Wonder if WSing had anything to do with that. Did the same with another malva sylvestris NOID and it bloomed, too. I wouldn't think the difference between north and south Texas would make that much difference...
Tonya

Tonya, I thought that may have been the case as the plant I received from Melva was still a small plant as though it were not a second year plant. I bet it was wintersown.

I have managed to buy some seeds on ebay and Josephine is sending me some also. I plan on wintersowing them in hopes of blooms the first year.

Charlene

I think you will really enjoy them. I am going to be trying 'mystic merlin' this year, also. I will definately be spraying all of them with a mix to keep the rust away this coming year, though. They sure did get it bad, but still survived and had many, many beautiful blooms.

Tonya

Thanks to Josephine for sending seeds. I also purchased some seeds online. I have also taken cuttings and will see how they do.

I am going to close this for now.

Charlene

have some blooming right now how do you get the seed

Wait for the flowers to die and you'll see the seed pods.

thank you stephanietx can you tell me how tall they get

They get about 3' tall, depending on your conditions. I had a horrible time with rust on them when I grew them, but they still flowered and did well. They are very prolific reseeders and once you plant them, you probably won't have to plant them again. LOL

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51464/

mind are only about 2 foot tall i got seed in a trade and
they werent named it just satd mixed so what a suprise when i got these small plants and they bloomed with these small blooms i love them thank you for your help
sissy70 judy

I had the rust problem also. I have had better results by thinning the plants to just a few stems and keeping the leaves thinned out a bit also.

Charlene

BTW Josephine sent me seeds that grew beautifully. I bought seeds on ebay and only one out of the 100 that I bought germinated. Go Figure!