The highlights
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Reaches showstopping heights in borders
- Flowers June to September
- Showstopping frilly petals
Description
- Tall sturdy spikes of fluffy double flowers in shades of white and ivory, with light green foliage
- Flowers from July to September
- A spectacular hardy perennial which typically reaches a height of over 2m!
- Plant in full sun at the back of a border by a wall or fence, or support with canes – they will self seed and come back year after year
- Edible flowers – use them to decorate cakes or add to salads
- Chater’s hollyhocks are named for the 19th century horticulturalist Chater of Essex who bred these varieties in the 1880s
- Attractive to butterflies and pollinating insects, hollyhocks have been described as flagpoles for the bees
