Grow these towering spires of flowers to add colour and drama to the back of cottage garden borders! Your plants will produce architectural spires of ruffled, double blooms, which will tower over summer borders adding structure and sensational colour. These heirloom Hollyhocks are loved for their saucer-shaped blooms, which attract butterflies and make a spectacular cut flower for a vase indoors. The edible flowers of Alcea rosea 'Chater's Doubles' can be added to salads for an attractive, tasty treat, crystallised as cake decorations or used to make a delicately flavoured syrup to use with puddings. Our garden ready plants are selected for garden performance, straight from the nursery. We send ours before they flower, hardened off, at the perfect time for planting out. Plants will establish quickly and all their energy goes into producing better roots, so they produce more flowers throughout the season. Plant out Hollyhocks in sunny borders in fertile, well-drained soil. Choose a posi