My Youngest gave me hollyhock seeds at last year.
Lush plants grew but did not bloom.
But THIS year - showtime!
Light pink, dark pink and white.
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As a child, my mom and her sister made tiny dolls out of these blooms and
created a cotillion for them on the dusty doorstep of their grandmother's home.
She showed me how to make a hollyhock belle once - the wide open bloom makes a skirt and
the tightly curled bud forms a coiffed head.
i am anxiously awaiting my hollyhock blooms. my "belles" are inherited from my grandma, and when i was little she used to show me how to make those little dolls too!
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