Charters Double Maroon Hollyhock Seeds

Charters Double Maroon
Alcea rosea
Seeds per Package: About 20 

🌒 Chater’s Double Maroon Hollyhock | Velvet Towers of Twilight 🌒
(Alcea rosea 'Chater’s Double Maroon')

In the gloaming of the garden, where shadows lengthen and dusk clings like a velvet cloak, the Chater’s Double Maroon Hollyhock rises. Regal. Brooding. Breathtaking. Each towering stalk bears sumptuous blossoms—fully double, ruffled, and drenched in a wine-dark maroon so deep it flirts with the edge of black. Like velvet roses frozen mid-whisper, they bloom 3 to 5 inches across, sumptuous and dramatic as a spell half-spoken.

Their gothic beauty summons pollinators like a siren’s call—bees, butterflies, and winged wanderers swirl around their towering forms, enchanted by the scent of old magic. Beneath their shadowy crowns, rounded, lobed leaves like faded parchment anchor these floral spires in place, tall and unshaken against summer winds.

🖤 A Garden Familiar for the Dark-Hearted
These aren’t merely flowers—they're incantations made flesh. Their petals are edible and steeped in tradition, once used in herbal brews and old-world dyeing to pull forth hues as rich as midnight secrets. Plant them in a border or cottage plot and watch as the garden shifts—suddenly older, wiser, more haunted.

🌕 To Awaken the Spell
Sow in early spring when the ground is soft with promise, or cast your seeds in autumn for dreams that slumber until spring. Give them full sun, well-drained soil, and a place where they can stretch toward the moon. A little staking helps them keep their stately posture, like old spirits standing guard. Though technically biennial, these hollyhocks often reseed generously—a gift whispered forward by the wind.

Let Chater’s Double Maroon transform your garden into a cathedral of blooms, a place where the petals are velvet, the air tastes of secrets, and each flower is a candle in the night. 🕯🌑