Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon

Add these tall, skinny, flowering shrubs to your garden and enjoy swoon-worthy blooms that keep coming from summer through fall. This variety is a thoroughly modern Rose of Sharon that fits small spaces.

You'll love Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus 'Gandini Santiago' PP 25,568) for its ability to squeeze into narrow side yards. Add several plants in a row to help hide the neighbor's second story bedroom window.

This useful variety of Hardy Hibiscus stays trim and tight, but puts on a lot of height. The graceful growth habit is strongly upright, reaching straight up to the sky.

Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon has been field-tested for high performance for many years by the Proven Winners® team. It stays lean and strongly vertical for an incredible focal point.

Bold, semi-double blooms provide a dazzling accent. Use one as a specimen. They can even be planted in extra-large outdoor containers.

Add several throughout your yard to get the most from your space. The bush produces few lateral branches, and most of the growth is pumped skyward.

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How to Use Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon in the Landscape

No matter what time of year, the powerful form of Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon makes a big statement. Use a pair of them, flanking either side of a tall entryway at the front of your home.

Or use them as a dramatic entrance to an outdoor dining room. They look fantastic along your pool deck, either grown in-ground or as "Thrillers" in big containers.

This shrub can certainly grow into a marvelous flowering hedge. Use several at your property line for a "friendly fence", or add a row on the sunny side to brighten up existing evergreen trees.

Although the strongly vertical form adds a formal touch, the flowers from summer through fall soften Purple Pillar's look. They look wonderful anywhere...from a hodge-podge cottage garden to a high-end commercial landscape.

Try them in combination with other hedging plants, like Linebacker Distylium or Chestnut Hill Cherry Laurel. Create your own unique hedgerow, or use Purple Pillar at either end of an evergreen hedge to open and close the experience.

Put those blooms to work!

This could become a lovely backdrop for a perennial garden border or Butterfly Garden. You'll have many visitors to these fetching mid-season flowers that bloom at an opportune time for pollinators.

Purple Pillar can be planted 18 - 24 inches apart on center, measuring from the center of one to the center of the next. Stagger a double row behind it for a faster screen.

Flowering "living walls" help your landscape live large. Create a series of garden rooms for entertaining and a getaway destination spot just for you.

How would you decorate a Secret Garden? Place a small garden statue, a fountain, or a mini Peach tree in the center. Don't forget a comfy chair and outdoor table!

Just want to hide the more utilitarian features of your landscape? You'll love the effective screening delivered by this rugged plant.

#ProPlantTips for Care

Plant these low-maintenance shrubs in full sun. You'll have the most flowers with at least six hours of direct sunlight a day.

Rose of Sharon needs well-drained soil that shed water quickly. Use a raised bed or container if your native soil retains water for a long time.

Keep the roots a bit damp, never wringing wet for long. A three-inch layer of wood mulch over the root systems keeps them happy and cool. Reapply regularly, and it will work to improve the condition of your soil over time.

Pay careful attention to your young plants, and those grown in containers. They'll need a regular schedule of medium water. Please protect your investment with supplemental water during extended droughts.

In early spring, you can prune to shape them, or reduce height. We do recommend you allow them to fill out into their naturally graceful full spread. Tidy them as you like, but shearing is perhaps a bit extreme.

Rose of Sharon shrubs are durable, providing years of service with a modicum of care. This exciting variety represents a huge leap forward.

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