Bring drama to your gardens with the handsome Blacknight Hollyhock, Alcea. Blacknight Hollyhock features large deep purple, almost black single flowers on sturdy stalks in summer. The fantastic flowers appear on tall 5′ stems. Absolutely striking in full bloom.

Use Blacknight as a stately, stand-alone specimen or a striking backdrop to other perennials. Ideal for cottage, cutting, and pollinator gardens. A member of the outstanding series of Spotlight Hollyhocks. For over 18 years, Jelitto Seed Company worked to develop a consistent strain of stable, straight color, single-flowered Hollyhocks. The Spotlight series is the result of all their hard work.

Besides their fabulous blossoms, one of the best traits about this series is that the plants are truly perennial, not biennial.

Hollyhocks can be grown under Black Walnut trees; they tolerate the toxic juglone emitted through the trees’ roots.

Plant in sun in average to rich soil. Keep watered while the plant is getting established and setting up buds and blooming.