thanks Janice. to be honest, it's not my favorite colour for hollyhocks, but it was named as being "black", so of course, had to see how it turned out : ) Prefer the double varieties, and some of the other colours, but so far, haven't had much success with those (typical lol)

quite a different colour, isn't it, Lorraine, - thanks for the nice comments. I really prefer the "double" flowered hollyhocks, but this colour sounded interesting, as it was called "black" on the description, but it's not really black : )