| If you're looking to give your garden a more | | | | that this particular plant, beautiful and lush while |
| tropical feel, or you even just want to add a little | | | | blooming, does not make an effective privacy |
| splash of color, you can't go wrong with a Rose | | | | hedge, unless you only wish to have privacy |
| of Sharon tree. Also referred to as Hibiscus | | | | during the late spring months and throughout the |
| syriacus, this tree has been called a plant, a shrub | | | | summer months. |
| and a bush in addition to being called a tree. | | | | If what you're looking for is an ample splash of |
| The debate over whether Sharon is a tree or a | | | | color during blooming months, there's no better |
| regular plant may be due to the fact that the | | | | way to make your garden king of the neighbor |
| tree, depending on the variety you select, may | | | | than with this queen of the flowering trees. The |
| be pruned into a tall tree or may be left near the | | | | blooms on the Rose of Sharon tree may come |
| ground as a shrub. | | | | as white, red, light blue or lavender and many of |
| How this tree achieves its status and title as a | | | | the trees have what are called "double blooms". |
| tree is through pruning. Each Rose of Sharon tree | | | | But to achieve the beautiful blooms and |
| begins life as a shrub and is cultivate through | | | | long-lasting life of this tree, you must plant it |
| careful and decisive pruning and planning to | | | | correctly. This means providing full sun and |
| become a tree with one main trunk. The best | | | | well-drained but moist soil. Without full sun, these |
| time to cultivate your Sharon into a tree is during | | | | trees will likely fall victim to fungal damage or root |
| its first two years. | | | | rot, and will ultimately die. |
| While many will refer to the plant as a shrub or | | | | If you take excellent care of your Rose of |
| bush, it can grow to heights of more than eight | | | | Sharon tree, it will live a long and beautiful life, |
| and even ten feet tall and can even achieve a | | | | offering you multiple layers of blooms each spring |
| spread, or width, of four to six feet. | | | | and summer. Planting and filling the garden of your |
| The Rose of Sharon tree is deciduous, so for | | | | dreams--one that will knock your neighbors' socks |
| those gardeners seeking an evergreen plant that | | | | off each time they walk by your home, is |
| will produce color throughout all seasons of the | | | | possible, as long as you are willing to take the |
| year, this plant is not the way to go. Deciduous | | | | time to choose the correct plants and truly build |
| plants and trees lose their leaves and flowers in | | | | your plant kingdom with queen trees like the |
| the fall and winter months, leaving the plant | | | | Sharon and other complementary plantlife. This |
| entirely bare until the next spring. This also means | | | | plant isn't hard to find. |