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Here are 15 popular rose of Sharon varieties to consider for your landscape.
Left unchecked, they often completely defoliate these plants.
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‘Blue Chiffon’ pushes the violet hue in the direction of blue.
It combines well both with orange flowers, such astorch lilies(Kniphofiaspp.
This cultivar blooms from midsummer into autumn.
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What makes it especially beautiful are the inner petals that surround the stamen, providing a frilly look.
The foliage is also attractive with brightly variegated creamy-white and bluish-green coloring.
Suchfoliage plantslike this one offer continuing appeal even after many garden blooms have wilted.
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For example, in the case of ‘Red Heart,’ the throat is red.
Those who consider white too plain will prefer such bicolored varieties.
‘Red Heart’ blooms from July into fall, with each blossom lasting just a single day.
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Like all rose of Sharon shrubs, deer usually avoid it.
‘White Chiffon’ is a solid option if you seek a summer-flowering bush with pure white blossoms.
Unlike most rose of Sharon varieties, there’s no contrasting throat to these flowers.
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It’s less tolerant of shade than other rose of Sharon cultivars.
And as one of the rose of Sharon seedless varieties, it produces few to no viable seed pods.
This plant isfairly tolerant of droughtand salty soils.
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But like all hibiscus, it prefers regular, even moisture.
It requires quite a bit of pruning to train it as a small tree.
You’ll be graced with a striking floral display from midsummer into fall.
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It has a nicely rounded, multi-stemmed growth habit.
To grow this rose of Sharon as a tree, prune out all but one central leader.
Left unpruned, it’s a very full plant that’s best suited for large shrub borders or screens.
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Its small size makes it an excellent container specimen, blooming from midsummer into autumn.
When grown in a container, prune ‘‘Lil Kim’ in spring to maintain its shape.
Like most rose of Sharon plants, this one is fairly easy to propagate from stem cuttings.
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It is heat, drought, and salt tolerant.
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‘Lucy’ is a fully double-petaled cultivar with large, 3- to 5-inch reddish-fuchsia blossoms.
Left unpruned, it makes a goodscreening hedge.
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This variety benefits from some pruning, which creates a full growth habit for hedge applications.
Pruning back to two or three buds in late winter will produce larger blooms the following summer and fall.
This rose of Sharon cultivar is relatively easy to propagate through stem cuttings.
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‘Purple Pillar’ flowers have a bicolor appearance: The semi-doublepurple bloomshave a large red throat.
Like mosthibiscus, it attracts bees and other pollinators.
‘Purple Pillar’ has a better-than-average tolerance for drought.
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It produces large lavender-pink flowers with notable red centers that can be seen from a distance.
This bang out of rose of Sharon has particularly good heat and salt tolerance.
Its deep purple flowers feature a dark red accent at their center.
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This shrub is long-blooming and has a good tolerance for heat and drought.
Its medium green leaves sport bright gold edging.
And when its in bloom, its purple double flowers wonderfully contrast with the gold.
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