How to Use hollyhock in a Sentence

hollyhock

noun

• This variety of hollyhock looks stunning in the back of borders or beds.
  — Mackenzie Nichols, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
• To avoid problems with hollyhock rust in the future: Do not use seeds from infected plants.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
• The secret to growing good hollyhocks is finding a local seed source.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 May 2018
• Hosta, grasses and daylily can produce six or more, while hollyhock and coral bells may only yield three.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
• Two really tall plants, hollyhocks and foxglove, need to be started now as well.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
• For the latter, check out things like bee balms, columbines, lupines, foxgloves, hollyhocks, cleomes, impatiens and petunias.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2020
• Dry spring weather is an excellent time to remove seed pods from hollyhock plants.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
• Flowers to start from seed now: Fibrous begonias, rhodochitins, hollyhock and lupine.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2021
• Flowers to start from seed now: Fibrous begonias, rhodochitins, hollyhock and lupine.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
• Many of the Malva family members are popular with hummers, but hollyhocks are a good place to start.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Hollyhocks live longer, but are a little difficult to get started.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 5 July 2017
• Towers of hollyhock animate one corner with their showy hot-pink-and-white blossoms.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• The bodies arrived at a large compound that is used as the crematory, its garden lined with hollyhock flowers.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2018
• Plant Foxglove, delphinium and hollyhock now: These three plants are large, tall-growing cool-season bedding plants that need to be planted early to put on a great display in spring.
  — NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Flowers to start from seed now: Fibrous begonias, rhodochitons, hollyhock and lupine.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Inspect new hollyhock plants for rust symptoms prior to purchase.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
• Nostalgic plants like roses, lilac, hydrangea, and hollyhock are back.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• Marsh Mallow Marsh mallow is a beautiful herb that produces attractive pink or white, hollyhock-like flowers for most of the summer.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2016
• From the dwarf-saucer magnolias in early spring, to the hollyhocks that Cogswell specified for the original garden, the long blooming phlox and the exotic perfume of the Plantagenet hostas in the fall, Riley watches over the process.
  — Joan Hunt, courant.com, 27 June 2019
• Phlox, hollyhock, foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
• The shortlist includes roses, silver lace vines, Virginia creeper, raspberry, linden, gaura, rose of Sharon and hollyhock.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
• Georgia O’Keeffe painting juxtaposing a ram’s horns with a hollyhock blossom, both floating over mesa and mountain, reveals artist’s preoccupation with life and death.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 20 Mar. 2023
• Flower to start from seeds: lobelia, pansies, rhodochitons, fibrous begonias, foxglove and hollyhock.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Biennials include foxgloves, hollyhocks, pansies, sweet William Dianthus, and forget-me-not.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023
• Examples of top re-seeders: hollyhock, marigold, calendula, and zinnia.
  — Kier Holmes, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• An ornamental gardener knows biennials as the garden flowers that seem to take forever to bloom — foxgloves, hollyhocks and Canterbury bells, among others.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Flower seeds to start: Rhodochitins, fibrous begonias, dahlias lobelia (don’t cover seeds), snapdragons (don’t cover seed and grow cool), carnations, verbena, pelargoniums, hollyhocks.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Representations of Barnsdall's favorite flower, hollyhock, appear on furniture and windows throughout the home.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2020
• This group primarily includes hollyhock, delphinium, columbine and foxglove.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• New Mexico identified onion, cucumber, tomato, radish, peppergrass, alfalfa, corn, lettuce, hollyhock, and spearmint seeds.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024