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Garden Gate:  Hollyhock seeds, does anyone have?  |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
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Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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 Posted - Jul 26 2007 : 4:50:26 PM
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Okay, I have a request if someone has some. They look almost black,
i think they were called midnight. My neighbor who passed away over a year ago gave me one and it didn't make it. Would really like to have some just to remember her by. Thanks.
Carol Sue
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 27 2007 : 07:43:52 AM
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| Oh! Sounds pretty -I have some hollyhocks but they re just babies now! I could send you some seeds when they go to seed -but I'm not sure what color they are! That actually would be a fun swap- seed exchange!!! |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2007 : 09:23:23 AM
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Yes it would. My one little pink holly hock died back because of the heat here this year, no seed this year.......
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
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Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2007 : 11:20:45 PM
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Carol Sue, I'm sorry for your loss. Neighbors can be like family.
I have thousands of hollyhock seeds! They're not black, but bright pink.
This is the first year I have grown them, and there are pods everywhere. I haven't tested them yet to know if they are fertile or not, but would be glad to send you some. I don't know if there is a chilling requirement for hollyhocks or not - they might not sprout till spring if you plant them now. Just send me an email with your address if you want the pink ones.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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Edited by - brightmeadow on Jul 27 2007 11:21:33 PM |
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Linda K. Miller
Farmgirl in Training
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Linda
Dunnville
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 03:31:05 AM
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Carol Sue, below is a website for the hollyhocks you are looking for. The black hollyhocks are becoming the most popular color.There are several sites but Thomas Jefferson is one of my favorite presidents, he had these hollyhocks at his home. Hollyhocks used to be planted around outhouses, that way ladies of the day did not have to ask where they might releive themselves they only had to look for the tall hollyhocks. Just some trivia for you about these flowers. I hope to be planting some around my outhouse this year, just because of their history.
http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/631001.html
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2007 : 4:32:06 PM
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Brenda would love sme just cause they are from you and Linda thank you so much for the info.
Save my pennies and get some now. Thanks.
Carol Sue
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2007 : 5:58:47 PM
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Carol, I'd be glad to send you some seeds! Did you send me an email with your address? I looked but didn't see it - should I look in my spam mailbox? Usually emails from the forum don't show up there, but come directly into my email...
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Originally posted by Carol Sue
Brenda would love sme just cause they are from you and Linda thank you so much for the info.
Save my pennies and get some now. Thanks.
Carol Sue
Enjoying life.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
Visit my blog at http://brightmeadowfarms.blogspot.com ,web site store at http://www.watkinsonline.com/fish or my homepage at http://home.earthlink.net/~brightmeadow |
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2007 : 6:49:33 PM
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Carol, Do you think you have enough of the hollyhock seeds? I do have some of the nearly black ones and I would be happy to send them off to you. They are still in full bloom so we would have to wait a bit on them. Let me know.....Cindy
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2007 : 9:16:31 PM
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Cindy and Brenda thank you thank you thank you.
Will send both of you emails with my address.
All you farmgirls are just so darned sweet.
makes me smile big and yes, cry!!!!!
Carol Sue
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Corinnelouise
True Blue Farmgirl
957 Posts
Corinne
France
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Posted - Jul 30 2007 : 11:49:19 PM
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Cindy, let me know if you still have some seeds to spare, I would like very much to have some.
I will send you an email. thanks.
Corinne |
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 9:51:35 PM
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| Corinne, I would be more than happy to send you some. I will tell both you and Carol that sometimes you don't actually get the color that you are hoping for. I ALWAYS get colors of hollyhocks growing that I have NEVER planted. They just surprise me! Please do email me and I'll send them in the fall! Cindy |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 06:01:20 AM
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Pink Hollyhocks? Can I have some. I can remember being a little girl and floating pink hollyhocks upside down in a bowl of water like little dancing ladies.
Trina
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 8:29:35 PM
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Oh Corrine what a lovely picture. Email each gal and let them know. If not let me know and I will share some of mine.
Carol Sue
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2007 : 10:49:13 PM
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Brenda,
They arrived. Happy Dance and thank you!!!!
Carol Sue
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 05:36:12 AM
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I just got some hollyhock seeds from a woman I was visiting while on vacation. She gave me enough to plant several places, so I'm going to plant some here at home, some at my daughter's house and some at my grandma's. So we're going to have generational hollyhocks! I think they'll all be pink, but after reading some of your posts, maybe we'll have some other colors mixed in! I can't wait-they're some of my favorite flowers!
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 5:18:42 PM
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I have red, pink (bright and light) and white. Happy to send some seeds if any of you email me privately with your names and addresses. I will TRY to keep them divided by color, but some times they just get mixed up!
Sharon
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 5:42:06 PM
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I would love some seeds too if anyone has any to spare. I could trade you also: Patty pan (squash), Zuni squash (looks like neon orange punkins). Thanks, Lu
P.S. I might have some flower seeds also.
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 6:06:51 PM
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Sharon thank you, this is so much fun cause it is from the farmgirls!!!!!
Carol Sue
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 11:12:18 AM
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Oh, I haven't read this in awhile. I don't have any black ones, but I do have other colors. If anyone wants seeds, I'd be happy to share too. They are so prolific, and they just take over at my place. I usually nip off the seed heads before they open just so they won't spread so much. But I'd be tickled to share. I've got shades of pink only. Would love other colors if anyone wants to share too. :)
My daughter makes flower dolls out of them to play with outside, they do make the perfect skirts and bodies upside down!
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 11:24:35 AM
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Michelle, Would you like to trade with me? Let me know what you'd be interested in! Hugs, Lu
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:27:33 PM
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Luzy, send me your mailing info & I'll send some.
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 6:39:35 PM
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Oh girls, this is so much fun. You are just making my day. Can't wait for the midnight seeds, having so much fun. Didn't somebody suggest a seed exchange or give away somewhere on here. Have they done that before and I just wasn't aware? Trust me, in one ear out the other, lately.
Carol Sue
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Sep 30 2007 : 06:24:40 AM
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Yesterday I was out doing some cleanup work in the garden and I cut down my hollyhock stalks. They were looking pretty forlorn, 8-foot tall brown stalks with one flower on the top. I see lots of little baby hollyhock plants under them, so I guess the seeds definitely were fertile, it will be a question of whether they flower next year or not. I have thousands and thousands of seeds from the stalks I cut down. Anyone wanting some, email me for my address (Put Hollyhocks in the subject) and send me a self-addressed and stamped envelope.
Carol Sue, did you plant the ones I sent you? Did they come up yet?
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
Visit my blog at http://brightmeadowfarms.blogspot.com ,web site store at http://www.watkinsonline.com/fish or my homepage at http://home.earthlink.net/~brightmeadow |
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Oct 03 2007 : 5:02:19 PM
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| Carol Sue, did you get the seeds I sent you? I never heard and I'd hate that you missed out on them. Cindy |
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Hollyhock seeds, does anyone have?
