Pruning & Bloom

Rose of Sharon flowers on new growth, which makes late-winter or early-spring pruning useful when a plant needs shaping. Established plants are adaptable, but flowering is strongest with good light and reasonable moisture.

About This Variety

Hibiscus syriacus 'Blushing Bride' Hibiscus syriacus 'Jimmy's Double Pink' FEATURES An outstanding flowering shrub that provides soft color in the summer. Large double flowers with a lovely pink blush are held on upright slender branches with toothy green leaves. A showy specimen.

Works well as a flowering hedge or screen. Deciduous. came from Quero, Belluno in Italy. The large, double pink, carnation-like flowers are produced in great abundance all summer long on this easily grown deciduous shrub.

The Rose of Sharon, a cold hardy shrubby Hibiscus species, has a naturally vase shaped habit when young but becomes rounded and full with age and it can also be trained into a tree form with careful pruning. These heirloom pass-along plants are quite tolerant of most well-drained, fertile soils in sunny sites and are resistant to periodic, short term drought once well-established. It became known as Jimmy's Double Pink Rose of Sharon because a mom's 4 year old son named Jimmy, picked his mother, Bonnie, a flower and she rooted the cutting long ago.

The flowers, even though double, attract bees, hummingbirds and the occassional butterfly.