Specialty Gardening: Hollyhock photos anyone?, 1 by cactuspatch

cactuspatch wrote:
Yes adobe is mud and straw mixed and baked in the sun. Here is a photo of one. There are lots of different colors depending on the color of the mud in the area. This stucco color is "suede" I don't know why. The guy who did it is coming to repair some damage to an outdoor fireplace we have on the back porch. He asked me which house and I said the peachy one and he remembered because most of the houses here are lighter, more tan or white shades. Here is a real adobe from the 1930's that is actually the visitor center at White Sands Nat'l Monument.

Sorry Skimper--they only have native plants out there so no hollyhocks to keep on topic. Although we often see old abandoned homesites with hollyhocks still blooming today.