Property News · July 12, 2024

Hollyhocks: the spears of floral trumpets that herald high summer


With their sweet-shop-hued flowers pointing skyward, these tenacious biennials are guaranteed to make you smileOne hot summer evening in 2020, my husband and I walked around our new neighbourhood. We had spent the day moving our belongings into our first home and, as I got to know the streets that I would eventually cycle down and push a buggy around, I pocketed the little husks of seed heads from hollyhocks that bowed over the pavements.This time of year – proper, full-blooded summer – always makes me think of hollyhocks. There’s something puppyish in their appeal: undeniably pleasant, reaching several feet into blue skies, a spear of floral trumpets in sweet-shop hues. Around these parts (the Brixton/Camberwell borders in south London) they decorate as many tree wells and forgotten scraps of land as they do front gardens. Each summer I photograph the most unlikely ones: last year a clutch sprung up around an industrial-scale wheelie bin. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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