Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon

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Useful Flowering Column Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon

  • Fabulous Vertical Accent
  • Grows Tall and Stays Skinny
  • Violet-Pink Petals Generously Streaked with Ruby Red Centers
  • Long-Lasting Flowering Display
  • Large, Tropical-Looking Flowers
  • Repeat Blooms for Months
  • Excellent as Cut Flowers
  • Feed Local Butterflies with Nectar Rich Blooms
  • Field-Tested to be Low-Maintenance
  • Keep to the Height You Want With One Pruning a Year
  • Amazing Privacy Screen for Tight Places
  • Carefree
  • Widely Adaptable
  • Tolerates Salt
  • Deer Don't Prefer the Taste

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.

Rise to the challenges of modern landscapes with help from these best-selling plants. Where can you use this unique shrub to your best advantage?

Order our commercial-grade landscape materials from the expert growers at Nature Hills. You'll be absolutely thrilled with the high quality Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon.

After all, this plant is destined to be a superstar in your landscape. Start with the best...place your order today!

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.

We have a limited quantity of these marvelous flowering, vertical columns. Please place your order of Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon today!

Buying Options for Plants

Nature Hills sells a large variety of plants with several options available. Plants are offered in both potted containers and as dormant bare root without soil. Here is a helpful resource to understand your options as you create a beautiful landscape with help from Nature Hills.

Ever wonder what a larger plant will mean for your landscape? Container Sizes are really all about the age of the plant!

Seasonally, Nature Hills offers hand selected, high quality bare root trees, shrubs and perennials. Bare root plants are sold by height from the top of the root system to the top of the plant. Plants may be taller than the height minimums.

  • Popular sizes of select trees are 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc.
  • Popular sizes of select bare root plants is 1 foot, 18 inches, etc.

Nature Hills Container Size by Volume

Keep in mind, specific varieties and different growing conditions can affect the rate at which plants grow. Variations in size may occur.

Young Plants to 18 Months
Size Volume
2"x2"x3" Ranges from .18 to .21 dry quarts / .198 to .23 dry liters in volume
4.5" Container Equal to .65 dry quart / .72 dry liter in volume
Sprinter Pot Equal to .63 dry quart / .69 dry liter in volume
4" Container Ranges from .31 to .87 / .35 to .96 dry liter in volume
6" Container Equal to 1.4 dry quarts / 1.59 dry liters in volume
1 Quart Equal to 1 dry quart / 1.1 dry liter in volume
5.5" Container Equal to 1.89 of a dry quart / 2.08 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x5" Ranges from .8 to 1.1 dry quarts / .88 to 1.2 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x6" Ranges from 1.0 to 1.3 dry quarts / 1.1 to 1.41 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x9" Ranges from 1.1 to 2.1 dry quarts / 1.2 to 2.3 dry liters in volume
4"x4"x10" Ranges from 1.7 to 2.3 dry quart / 1.87 to 2.53 dry liters in volume
Plants 18 Months - 2.5 Years Old
Size Volume
2 Quart Equal to 2 dry quarts / 2.2 dry liters in volume
#1 Container Ranges from 2.26 to 3.73 dry quarts / 2.49 to 4.11 dry liters in volume
5"x5"x12" Equal to 3.5 to 4.3 dry quarts / 3.85 to 4.74 dry liters in volume
Plants 2 - 4 Years Old
Size Volume
#2 Container Ranges from 1.19 to 1.76 dry gallons / 5.24 to 7.75 dry liters in volume
#3 Container Ranges from 2.32 to 2.76 dry gallons / 10.22 to 12.16 dry liters in volume
Plants 3 - 5 Years Old
Size Volume
#5 Container Ranges from 2.92 to 4.62 dry gallons / 12.86 to 20.35 dry liters in volume
#7 Container Ranges from 5.98 to 6.08 dry gallons / 26.34 to 26.78 dry liters in volume

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PLANT HIGHLIGHTS

Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon Is Suited to Grow in Zones 5-9
Growing Zones 5-9
More Information
Brand Proven Winners ColorChoice
Botanical Name Hibiscus syriacus 'Gandini Santiago'
Type Deciduous
Mature Height 10 - 15 feet
Mature Spread 2 - 3 feet
Sun Exposure Full Sun
Soil Well Drained
Moisture Medium
Growth Rate Medium
Flower Color Purple
Fall Color Yellow
Pollinator Friendly Yes
Pruning Time Early Spring
Fragrant No