Rose of Sharon Shrub — photo: Eric Kounce TexasRaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rose of Sharon Shrub — photo: Eric Kounce TexasRaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bushes & Accent Shrubs

Rose of Sharon Shrub

Zones 5a–9bLive Plant
$8.00
$11.00
$8.00
(-27%)

Rose of Sharon delivers big tropical-looking hibiscus flowers from midsummer to frost, exactly when most flowering shrubs have quit for the year.
Rose of Sharon Shrub

Pot Size: 6" Starter Pot
Quantity
Rose of Sharon Shrub — photo: Eric Kounce TexasRaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bushes & Accent Shrubs

Rose of Sharon Shrub

$11.00 $8.00
Rose of Sharon Shrub — photo: Eric Kounce TexasRaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bushes & Accent Shrubs

Rose of Sharon Shrub

$11.00 $8.00
Pot Size: 6" Starter Pot
Description

Rose of Sharon is an upright deciduous shrub that blooms through the hottest part of the season in white, pink, lavender, or blue, often with a contrasting eye. It handles heat, humidity, and urban conditions well and can be grown as a specimen, a loose hedge, or limbed up into a small tree. Seedless cultivars save you from volunteer seedlings. Shipped in a 6" Starter Pot, well-rooted from our Lineville, Alabama nursery.

Specifications
  • Mature size: 8-12 ft tall, 4-8 ft wide
  • Grows best: Outdoors - Hardiness USDA 5-9
  • Pet safety: Mildly toxic to pets if ingested
  • Sourcing: Nursery-grown by Wade Greens; ships healthy from our Lineville, Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.
Care Instructions
  • Light: Full sun to light shade
  • Water: Moderate; regular water produces the best flowering
  • Soil: Average, well-drained soil; adaptable to most garden conditions.
  • Feeding: Feed once in early spring with balanced slow-release fertilizer.
Growing Zone

Hardy in zones 5a–9b. Outside that range it can still be grown in a container and overwintered indoors.

Full colour is zones 5a–9b, where this plant is hardy in the ground. Lower 48 shown — that's where we ship. 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, via the PRISM Climate Group.

Questions & Answers

How big does it get?
8-12 ft tall, 4-8 ft wide

How much light does it need?
Full sun to light shade

Is it safe for pets?
Mildly toxic to pets if ingested

How is it shipped?
Packed to arrive healthy and shipped from our Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.

Shipping & Returns

Ships to all 48 contiguous states from our farm in Lineville, Alabama.

What it costs

Based on your order total: $12.95 under $35 · $16.95 to $75 · $21.95 to $125 · free over $125.

Ship days

Mondays and Tuesdays only — see below.

Getting it ready

1–3 business days to pot up, water back and pack.

Where we can't go

Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, P.O. boxes, and outside the United States.

Why we only ship Mondays and Tuesdays

A plant in a dark box is on a clock. Shipping early in the week means it reaches you before the weekend instead of sitting in a warehouse from Friday to Monday. It costs us a day or two of lead time and saves a lot of plants.

Practically: an order placed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or over the weekend goes out the following Monday. We'd rather tell you that now than let you find it in a tracking number.

How long it takes once it leaves

Typical ground transit from Lineville, Alabama after the ship day. Estimates, not guarantees — weather and carrier backlogs happen.

  • 1–2 days Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky
  • 2–3 days The rest of the Southeast and Midwest, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
  • 3–5 days The Plains, the Mountain West and the West Coast

Tracking is emailed the moment your box is scanned.

If something arrives unhappy

A little leaf drop or travel stress is normal and usually sorts itself out within a week or two of settling in. If a plant arrives genuinely damaged, email support@wadegreens.com within 48 hours of delivery with a photo of the plant and the box, and we'll make it right.

Plant Traits

The facts that decide whether it takes root, in the order that matters.

Sunlight

Full Sun (6+ hrs)

Six or more hours of direct sun. With less it stretches toward the light and flowering thins out.

Water

Moderate

Water when the top inch of soil is dry. Evenly damp, never standing wet.

Mature Size

3-6 ft

Where it settles once established. Plan the spacing for this, not for the size it arrives at.

Foliage

Deciduous

Drops its leaves in fall and leafs back out in spring. Bare in winter is dormant, not dead.

Works As

Foundation Planting · Border & Bed

Traits

  • Long BloomingKeeps setting new buds across the season instead of one flush. Removing spent flowers keeps it making buds rather than seed.
  • Attracts PollinatorsOpen, shallow flowers with nectar a generalist bee can reach. These are the visitors that set fruit on everything else in the garden.
  • Attracts HummingbirdsTubular flowers, usually red or orange, holding nectar past the reach of most insects. Hummingbirds find them by sight, not scent.
  • Heat TolerantKeeps photosynthesizing and holds its flowers through July and August here, when most plants stall out.

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