It was common, this scream of frustration by members of the California flower grower’s Association. Their specialty was the ever popular Malvaceae plant, the familiar name being “hollyhock”.
After many crops were destroyed in the latest 4.5 earthquake in the Association’s fields of hollyhock, the sound heard throughout the land was: “hollyhocks and aftershocks, we’re ruined!’
The Bag Lady 
we have these lovely and extremely invasive flowers all over the back yard each summer. I keep pulling them out and they keep moving from place to place, reappearing in early spring just to say “we are smarter than you are!”
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