Alcea three centimeters wide and may be pink, white, purple, or yellow. The fruit is a schizocarp, a dry disc divided into over 15 sections that contain seeds. There are about 60 species of "Alcea", including: Hollyhocks are popular garden ornamental plants. They are easily grown from seed. Breeds with red flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Cultivars have been bred, especially from "A. rosea". They include the double-flowered 'Chater's Double', the raspberry-colored 'Creme de Cassis', and 'The Watchman', which has dark, nearly black, maroon flowers. The stems of hollyhocks can be used as firewood, and the roots have been used medicinally.
Golding Constable's Flower Garden after Constable's mother had died after falling ill in one of the gardens and when his father was seriously ill. The gardens were demolished after the family home was sold in 1839. Golding Constable's Flower Garden Golding Constable's Flower Garden is an 1815 painting by John Constable. The work shows the flower garden belonging to Constable's father, Golding Constable, who lived in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt. The painting was donated by the grandson of the pioneering travel agent Ernest Edward Cook, who left his art collection to the Art Fund, which distributed it to nearly a hundred British