Color was important to Wright, added Mrs. Nemtin, as were strong vertical accent plants, like the yellow hollyhocks that the architect planted himself near his Wisconsin house.

The center of the garden is a circular mosaic of brick, with tall yellow and pink hollyhocks and clematis climbing up the arbor - a simple creation made of a material Mr. Dash favors, plumbers' piping, here turned into two 12-foot hoops painted purple.

Some of my most treasured gifts have been seeds - of pale yellow hollyhocks from a garden I love in Sagaponack, L.I. And cuttings, like the six-inch wisteria that a friend in Maryland gave me; it's now scrambling up the mysterious tower on my Brooklyn roof.

Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door, behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks, with a long breath of mingled weariness and relief.

I am keeping my eye on a particularly beautiful creamy yellow single hollyhock that started blooming near the Brooklyn Bridge during the heat wave.

He potted red hibiscus plants, geraniums in hanging baskets, miniature cedar trees, and yellow and burgundy hollyhocks.

And there was no wall of pale yellow hollyhocks outside the gate.

Pink and yellow hollyhocks mounted from planters among the brick walks; red and white roses covered the walls against the adjoining properties and Erdin's central canal across the back.

The rain would wash down these panes the whole afternoon; the light would grow even duller on the eternal blue sea of the wallpaper, patterned with those floral sailing ships, their red and yellow hollyhocks standing tall for masts.

IN the second bedroom, hanging on the wall next to framed color photographs of their honeymoon safari, is a bright watercolor of a picturesque cottage, with yellow hollyhocks and red dahlias towering over a white Gothic bench.