Hardy or sensitive to frost?

Some old varieties of hollyhock can even live to be several years old without ever having received frost protection. Cultivated forms and hybrids, however, often have different properties. Ask when you buy the plant or look on the seed package for the winter hardiness, then you will know exactly how you want yours Hollyhocks should treat for winter.

How do I care for my hollyhocks in winter?

If you live in a rough area, protect your hollyhocks from frost and cold wind with a layer of brushwood or leaves. You can also bring sensitive varieties to frost-free winter quarters. here overwintered Your hollyhock without the risk of freezing to death. However, you should then use the plants occasionally to waterotherwise they will die of thirst.

The hollyhock in spring

plants Put the hollyhock back into the field around May. Then give something Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *)

or compost in the planting hole. However, you should avoid a radical change in temperature. Put the plants as soon as they sprout again and it is frost-free outside for a few hours every day. Only after the ice saints do you put the hollyhocks back in their usual place.

You can release winter hardy varieties in the open from their winter protection as early as April, as soon as longer periods of frost are no longer to be expected. Preferably cut Remove the first green leaves to prevent them from growing Mallow rust be infested. The fungal spores often overwinter in the soil and then return to the plants in spring.