{"id":1013,"date":"2008-08-10T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/08\/10\/rose-of-sharon-blooming\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T06:40:07","slug":"rose-of-sharon-blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/08\/10\/rose-of-sharon-blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Sharon blooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Join<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always surprised when I look at the stats for this site and I see the search term &#8220;Rose of Sharon&#8221; come up almost daily all year round.  There&#8217;s obviously a lot more people than I thought looking for information about Rose of Sharon shrubs!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_4511 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2726711741\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"IMG_4511 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2726711741\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3190\/2726711741_db0301595b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4511\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>My Rose of Sharon came to me 7 years ago as a gift from my neighbor. She has a Rose of Sharon, lets call it the mother tree, that is about 40+ years old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how tall her tree is but lets say it&#8217;s somewhere between 12 and 15 feet tall. The seedling she gave me has grown quite a bit over the years and it&#8217;s only about two feet shorter than the mother tree. It&#8217;s trunk and branches have thickened, but they are still smaller in diam. than the mother trees &#8211; but not by that much.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely not the best picture of the tree that I&#8217;ve ever taken, but to show you how big it is this year and what it looks like in full bloom, here we go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_4550 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2726737937\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"IMG_4550 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2726737937\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3283\/2726737937_1ef4e87d39.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4550\" width=\"451\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>You can see the power line above the tree so that should give you an idea of how tall it is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a beautiful addition to my garden.  I love it&#8217;s purple blooms.  Birds love the tree year round, and butterflies and other insects enjoy the tree when it&#8217;s in bloom. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s helped attract some of the butterflies that frequent my yard regularly each year.<\/p>\n<p>The Rose of Sharon is a fairly hardy tree, but it&#8217;s slow to leaf out in the spring.  It&#8217;s often one of the last plants to start to show signs of life in my garden.  I usually see leaves forming by early June, but there have been a few years where it hasn&#8217;t leafed out till close to the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>My elderly neighbor <em>always<\/em> thinks her tree is dead each year because it&#8217;s so slow and each year I reassure her that it will leaf out and bloom &#8211; and it does.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet that the Rose of Sharon being slow to start up in the spring or early summer is one of the major reasons why I get so many searches on my site for this lovely shrub.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a Hardy Hibiscus that would die down each winter, but for the past two years it&#8217;s failed to come up. I think it&#8217;s gone.   My tropical Hibiscus &#8211; that I keep indoors in the winter &#8211; is doing well in a large urn at the front of the house. There are several peach colored blooms on it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you grow Hibiscus?  What type and what have your experiences been with the plant?<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">As the Garden Grows<\/a> for more information. 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There&#8217;s obviously a lot more people than I thought looking for information about Rose of Sharon shrubs! 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