How to Use hollyhock in a Sentence

hollyhock

noun
  • Others, like tomatoes and hollyhocks, can get laden down with fruits and flowers.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • Skies appear extra-blue, hollyhocks come in brilliant reds and pinks.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Dry spring weather is an excellent time to remove seed pods from hollyhock plants.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
  • This variety of hollyhock looks stunning in the back of borders or beds.
    — Mackenzie Nichols, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Two really tall plants, hollyhocks and foxglove, need to be started now as well.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Hosta, grasses and daylily can produce six or more, while hollyhock and coral bells may only yield three.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The secret to growing good hollyhocks is finding a local seed source.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 May 2018
  • Hollyhocks live longer, but are a little difficult to get started.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 5 July 2017
  • It is most often seen in shades of pink, red, and burgundy, but white and yellow hollyhocks are also available.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Inspect new hollyhock plants for rust symptoms prior to purchase.
    — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Towers of hollyhock animate one corner with their showy hot-pink-and-white blossoms.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • One of these is pink hollyhock tree (Hibiscus splendens).
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Nostalgic plants like roses, lilac, hydrangea, and hollyhock are back.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Here’s the best time to plant hollyhock seeds based on your climate and how to succeed at getting continuous blooms.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The huge white, pink, red, or burgundy flowers that appear in mid-summer resemble hollyhocks.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • Phlox, hollyhock, foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 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
  • The title comes from the pink, white and red hollyhocks that grew alongside Grandmother’s house from which an aunt fashioned flower dolls.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The twisted stars of periwinkles, towering hollyhocks with their hot-pink Medusa heads, the lion-mane frills of marigolds.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This one is more true to life, and it’s loosely based on the hollyhocks in Fragonard’s Progress of Love series.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Zinnias, hollyhock, cone flower, and cosmos are all perfect late-season choices that can be used for both bundle- and dip-dyeing fabrics.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • From coats, dresses, and suits with hollyhocks, topiaries and collages of various flora and foliage.
    — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Also, seeds from several plants might produce hollyhocks of different colors.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Foxglove, hollyhock, and sweet William are examples of biennial plants.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Regretfully, rust fungus spores seem to be plentiful and always available to affect plumeria, canna and hollyhock foliage.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
  • This group primarily includes hollyhock, delphinium, columbine and foxglove.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Like foxglove, hollyhocks typically grow as biennials, growing a rosette of foliage in their first season and producing flowers in their second year.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 May 2026

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