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Welcome, fellow garden-lovers of Ballarat! Hollyhock Hill is a locally owned and family-operated part of your community. What does that mean for you? Exclusive offers and free local delivery! For you, we offer more than seeds and gardening tools; we also offer a lawn-mowing and gardening service, exclusive cool-climate-friendly and locally-raised potted heirloom tomatoes and vegetables in spring and frost-hardy herbaceous perennials year-round, and we regularly meet you at the local farmers’ market. Scroll down to see our current offers, check out our weather and climate updates, and know a little more of our story.

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Hollyhock Hill

Geum 'Princess Juliana'

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Large 200mm pot. 2nd-year plant. ‘Princess Juliana’ is a beautiful, century-old orange variety of Geum, named after the young Dutch princess who later became Queen of Holland in 1948. Native to the island of Chiloe in South America, which was home to a large population of Dutch immigrants and has a very similar climate to Ballarat. A clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with lobed basal leaves and vivid orange, semi-double flowers on tall stems produced in early and midsummer. Full sun or part shade. Likes moist, well-drained soil. Frost-hardy. Doesn't lose all its leaves in winter. Height to 50cm.

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Ballarat, a wet spring has given us a green start to summer!

The needle moved to WET on 29th November. Overall, we have seen a cool, cloudy, wet second half of spring. November’s daily mean temperature was a degree below average at 12.8, and our rainfall was double the average at 110mm. Our deciduous plants and trees have been a little late to come out, but nobody’s complaining about the lush, verdant gardens around town!

Please note: Hollyhock Hill’s ‘Drought Meter’ is an independent assessment of past weather in Ballarat, based primarily on rainfall data for the previous 3 months. It is not an indicator of longer-term hydrological conditions or of any official drought declarations.

We're a gardening family with local roots

It all began with a fruit and vegetable plot at Scotsburn near Ballarat in the 1850’s. Five generations of local gardeners and farmers later, and we’re still here serving you in Victoria’s Garden City!

Plants, seeds, and garden tools are available at our local Saturday markets (see below for the next market dates). Open from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m, the Hollyhock Hill stand showcases a range of heirloom and open-pollinated flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, as well as potted perennials and top-quality gardening tools. In winter we stock tulips and daffodil bulbs, and in spring a wide range of tomato varieties and other vegetable plants are potted and ready for you to put in the ground.

The Ballarat Farmers’ Market is in Zoo Drive, off Wendouree Parade, at the North Gardens Reserve. They have hot coffee, food vans, local fruit and vegetables, baked goods, sweets, desserts, jam, beverages, vinegar, olive oil, meat, cheese, spices, grain, eggs, honey, and loads of specialty stalls selling homewares, country crafts, jewellery, local art, clothing, plants, seeds, bulbs, and lots more!

The Creswick Market is a much-loved monthly event, with the true relaxed feel of a regional community market. Located in the picturesque and historic township of Creswick, just 20 minutes from either Ballarat or Daylesford. With live music and specialist boutique sites offering gourmet take away food, coffee, handmade arts and crafts, jewellery, clothes, home grown fruit, vegetables, plants and other produce.

Next markets:

Creswick Market. Saturday, 17th January 2026, 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. 21 Victoria St, Creswick.

Ballarat Farmers’ Market. Saturday, 24th January 2026, 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Zoo Drive, North Gardens Reserve, Lake Wendouree.

Got any questions? Send us an email at sales@hollyhockhill.com.au

Happy Gardening! Jock and Sasha

A frequent visitor to Hollyhock Hill: An Eastern Spinebill in our Japanese flowering quince hedge.

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Tulip ‘London’, returning in 2026.

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