This video couldn't have come at a better time. My grandmother, Sharon passed away in late July and I was going to buy a variety of the Rose of Sharron to plant in her memory! ❤
Good Evening from Victoria Australia ... with the very strict Covid restrictions we are in it is wonderful to watch your videos and take my mind off all that is going on ... Thank you 🤗🇦🇺😊
Are the numbers of cases up ? Why are they being strict ? I've seen FB post of some horrible things where they are not allowing ppl to freely go about their business
Rose of Sharon is my absolute favorite, especially the “double” bloom. I highly recommend it as long as you have the space for it and keep it trimmed each year!
I would really love to see a pruning video on a rose of sharon. I have one but it grows fairly wild and I dont know how to properly prune them,or when.
I agree with nearly everything Laura said about this plant except for it serving as a good screen. It's deciduous and is the last among most plants to break dormancy so you'd only have that screen for several weeks out of the year but I bet it would look outstanding flanking medium-sized crape myrtles. Laura should try to see if a crape myrtle would survive in her garden with her recent upgrade. The ones by me are still in bloom and started in mid-July! Eight weeks of blooms!
@@CarolAnnHenderson i just wish people would realize they come in other colors than that (in my opinion) "screaming loud pink." HortTube has some great videos on different crape myrtle varieties. I've seen some beautiful purple and lavender ones that I'd love to have.
Got a little glimpse of your baby bump yeah. Looking forward to finding out what the new baby is going to be. Love that rose of Sharon. Perfect place for it. Thanks for all your wonderful videos. Enjoy your day. 💕💕💕💕
Rose of Sharons are such great performers, blooming all summer. I have several in my garden. I even have a pink double Althea Rose of Sharon which is now in it’s full mature size of 13 feet talk, and it’s still blooming. Great choice for that spot in your garden.
White Rose of Sharon! Vertical upright growth habit will be awesome...so it will be easier if you want to train it into a standard! I would like one of these. Should look awesome in any space. 🤩🌱🌸🇨🇦
73 year young , bladder cancer survivor here, I take pleasure in gardening and just planted a lavender RoS this after noon. I love members of the hibiscus family, have two Midnight Marvels, one Holy Grail in my red garden along with several red cannas, watch your videos religiously everyday. God bless.
Coffee with Laura, Aaron, and a lovely plant once again!! Another good choice to add to my list of items to see if it will work on our playground as we do have some areas that need a bit of privacy from the parking lot.
It's deciduous which makes it a poor choice for a screening plant. And it's also (as Laura said) one of the last plants to break dormancy. Choose something else as a screen; something evergreen (arbs, holly, etc.).
Thank you for always sharing great information & advice for all of us! I just added a blue chiffon Rose of Sharon, and I'm very appreciative of you talking about adding the Soil Acidifier. We also have high ph soil, and I use the acidifier for my hydrangeas and luckily have plenty on hand - I'll be running outside after my coffee and adding some to my rose of sharon!
Found your channel during the pandemic. You have gotten us through some weird times. We have a relatively small gardening space for flowers but we have used so many of your ideas and tips, adapted them and worked within our budget to create some joyful projects of our own. We enjoy your work so much!! Also am thankful that you don't mention the pandemic much at all. We hear enough about it in "the real world". Thanks to you, Aaron, and Benjamin!
Thank you for going over the Rose of Sharon planting video. I have been wanted to get one ever since seeing them in your garden. Now I feel I more knowledge to get it in the ground. :)
Beautiful! I saw your sky looks clearer today... We live in Ohio and we now have the smoggy skies from the fires out west. I hope they can get them controlled soon and you guys stay safe !
Living in Spain, I did use rose of Sharon as a hedge privacy screen on a full westerly terrace... it is a gorgeous plant and would repeat that if I were to ever have the chance again! Loved seeing your ‘blue’ blooming one which reminded me of mine. Thank you 👍🏼
Wonderful! I planted a stance of these PW pink rose of sharon along the sunny side of my driveway a little earlier in the season, and they are fast growers that flower profusely! Truly delightful! I hand shoveled to plant, and am in love with the idea of using a large auger like what you folks have!! I hope to get one some day! Thanks for sharing this with all of us!! We love youtwo!!!
I love this plant, don't get me wrong, but I definitely wouldn't plant it along a driveway, sidewalk or any walkway. The blooms only last a day and then they litter the ground around them and if you have a lot of rain like me, the spent blooms are slippery on walking surfaces.
@@Bamboo4U2 Thanks Jake! We live in the woods in the Smoky Mountains, and they sit back from the edge of a long winding driveway quite a bit. I call my property the "Flower Jungle," because it's a little wild down in here, as are we! Nothing too tailored or controlled going on. That's great advice though for more formal settings. I dead head them on my way up to get the mail each day. The rest just dissappear into the earth.
I love love love Rose of Sharons! I love most anything in Malvaceae family, but I love that these are hardy even in my cold climate! I have had a few clients that complained about the flowers dropping and making a mess all year, but IMO the show is well worth a little extra raking!
We planted a white pillar in early May from gallon pot against a fence to add privacy screen with my neighbor. Since we live in a townhouse with small garden, this is going to be perfect. The shrub has already grown a couple of feet and has been blooming all summer. Next year I expect it to peak over the fence we share with neighbor. I have paired this one with the Sugar Tip Rose of Sharon on adjoining back fence which is also columnar and has gotten very tall. Along the remaining back fence of my yard are two more Rose of Sharons, a white Diana and a pink one with dark center. I pruned the pink one's lower branches when it was new to take more of a tree form; and it now arches to provide shade over our garden benches. I love the way these plants have softened all the neighboring hardscape and provide privacy and color for a long season.
My name is sharon and growing up we used to have a big pink bush rose of Sharon in my childhood home. I love the diversity of this plant. I plan to plant rose of Sharon when I have my own house some day
Hi Laura and Aaron! The Rose of Sharon looks so pretty there beside the Black Lace Elderberry. They really compliment each other. The Blue Chiffon Standard is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
I planted my own Rose of Sharon this year. My flowers are pink and look like Carnations. I love it! Can’t wait for next year when it gets bigger. Wish I could share a pic with you. Thank you for being so inspiring to me.
I have a hedge row of Rose of Sharons along my fence. They always get gasps from friends snd neighbors. A shining star in my opinion! So easy to care for too!
Love all forms of Rose of Sharon!! I love the white, ....we have a pink one, double althea, smack dab in front of our house, it was here when we moved in. August 2017. I thought it was just a tree of some sort, no buds, blooms only leaves. The following fall, we had a few blooms and hummingbird feeding from it. 3 of 5 branches were dead, so I began removing the 'dead'. 2 of them were, but the 3rd stalk very much still alive. This yr literally one limb full of buds and blooms and the other bare stalk, but it was still alive. Ugghhh... I love them and hope next yr I can somehow help it thrive. This is beautiful fence line Laura and Aaron. ...Thank you for sharing.
If it doesn't, rip it out and replace it. It's your garden. Don't suffer poor-performing plants. Lots of other plants will thrive where that one isn't. (You could also take a cutting of that one and try to propagate a replacement. That's free.)
My favorite edible flower! Have you ever tried one? It is sweet and refreshing! Great all by itself. Very hydrating to. I love all colors and styles of the "Rose of Sharon's", but my favorite is my "weeping peppermint stripe"! To be honest, it was a volunteer that came up under our grapevine that I moved to a spot on my property line. It's the only one I have and the only one in my neighborhood. I'm going to try my hand at propagation, and it's going to be the guinea pig! 😆
I love the look of that plant! I am sad that it wouldn't do well in my zone 4b....oh well, I can't copy all your plants!😉 Thank you for showing us all the beautiful things!
I have 4 purple pillar and was considering the white version. I’m now sold. My local big box garden store only sells the purple version so that is another reason I haven’t planted the white. My Purple Pillar started off at 3 feet and has already grown to about 7 feet tall...in 4 months!!!🥳
Hey Laura! I'm doing a project in school and I thought I would ask the gardening expert some of my questions! What do you love about the garden? What do you hate about it? Why do you do it? What little things are harder than it should be in the garden? What are threats to your garden? Thanks! I hope you have a good day :)
I love Rose of Sharon - we have always had one in our yards throughout the years. All purple blooms very similar to the one you shared but I planted it 15 years ago so I’m sure not the same variety.
I planted one of these in a memorial garden this summer. A precious young man was violently taken from us aged 20 years. He would have been 50 years old in June. I have found gardening the best therapy for grieving.
Aww Laura! I see baby making their presence known! I adore your sweet growing belly. Not in a weird way, honest!! Funny story I hope you see...I started watching you after finding your vlogs randomly. I kept talking to my husband about new gardening ideas and he asked who I was getting it from and I said "my friend Laura." haha! I continue on and showed him some of the videos. I would talk to him about winter interest and he started calling you "the winter interest lady." So now if I tell him something new I learned or something I want to try after seeing your video I can't just call you Laura, I have to add "you know the winter interest lady!" and he'll know who I'm talking about. It's so funny for us and has now become our thing when we talk about our garden/flower bed. Hope you and baby are doing great! Same for Benjamin and Aaron. ❤️
Perfect spot for the Rose of Sharon! I also have Rose of Sharon, several! They were given to me by my Dad who is no longer here to enjoy them with me. I have both white & purple! Everytime I look at them I remember my Dad! 😊😍🌺🌱💜💟❤
Awesome! I have been thinking about adding a Rose of Sharon into my landscape, and your video helped me make up my mind. Thank you! Love all your videos. 🥰😄
Two questions: how much privacy do the RoS branches provide when not in leaf? Also, how big does the standard form RoS get? Thanks for all your great advice and info!
During winter months and early spring, we are looking at sticks. So no privacy, but if your eyes focus on the foreground instead of neighbor/background.
Thats gonna look great next to the Elderberry! Yea i got to see the blue Chevon rose of Sharon its pretty! I love blue! I like the way its shaped too! Congrats on 1m subscribers!! You guys are awesome!!
they grow as weeds in our are, i always wondered why more people didnt grow here, they are absolutely gorgeous, the flowers are so pretty and last so long. good to know their name atlast.
Many of the newer varieties are more sterile but I have a hedge of them in all colors that I grew literally from twigs that self seeded in other parts of my yard.
I love the Rose of Sharon prolific blooms but so do the Japanese beetles in my area, zone 5b dry climate. Since Rose of Sharon also attracts pollinators, I didn’t feel that I could treat them and spent a lot of time picking the beetles off by hand into soapy water. So I removed 7 bushes this spring☹️ However, I did plant 9 hydrangeas this year🌞🌱🌞
How do you deal with the dead flowers of Rose of Sharons? They seem to be sludgy and stick to lower growing plants around the shrub. Since they bloom so profusely it made our groundcover look bad. The structure of this variety is so unique! Can't wait to see it mature.
Laura - you are brilliant!! We’ve been searching for just exactly what you discussed - a privacy hedge - unfortunately we’re zone 4. I do already have a Fine Lines Buckthorn that’s been growing so beautifully the last 8 years and at the time I planted it - a bit of privacy was the reason why I planted it in the first place!! Just forgot about the why, until you reminded me. I would love to plant a Rose of Sharon - suggestions if you think it might be possible in my zone! Or maybe other suggestions like ROS or is Buckthorn my only possibility. Thanks for the memory jog!! 😊💐👍🏼
this is so unique and pretty!! can't wait to see it grow, wow! i do have an area in my yard where i need something just like that!! i will have to study the sun - my area is more part sun but that might work since i'm in a zone 10.... hmm 🙂 thanks for this!! another day of inspiration!!! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
I planted the Purple PIllar this year in a corner of a garden bed where I wanted some height interest without losing too much real estate. It's looking good so far.
I don't agree. And I don't know if that Laura's recommendation or Proven Winners but that's a deciduous shrub that breaks dormancy late, all of which, IMO, make it a poor choice for a privacy screen.
So good to see you planting that there. You have the perfect eye for contrasting plants in your garden. It’s beautiful. How would I change my Rose of Sharon to a standard? I have several and am wanting to change one. Is this done from the baby stage, or could I do it to a 3 year old plant that is planted in a pot? I cannot find a standard in my area and I think your is just beautiful. Mine is about 3 ft tall. Thanks for the help and God bless. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
I planted one by my fence off of my back porch. Your spot is perfect. Laura, could you talk about daylilies sometime? I have such a problem with the foliage on them and I have lots I need to divide.
I think they're okay but I don't get how some people rave about them. They're not in bloom for a long time and (to me, IMO), their foliage isn't the greatest afterwards and by fall, it's mushy and gross like hostas.
My parents have one at the corner of the garage so so pretty love it see it as you drive up to the condo lots of blooms I late summer in southern ontario perfect !! 😍
Beautiful. Unfortunately, I'm in zone 2b. Take care with the poor air out there. We got the haze last night in our sky with a weird red sun .... and we are in the centre of the continent.
I just got the pink sugar tip, and I absolutely love it! I believe that it's a double bloom, so it doesn't look so tropical to me... Btw, good idea with the acidic stuff, good luck finding the iron tone... Someone said that it's discontinued...
I have a pink sugar tip too. It is very tall and a beautiful view from my kitchen window and provides the hardscape softening our yard needed. It grew slower than the white pillar, which we planted this spring. Every morning it looks like a fresh bouquet of flowers.
This video couldn't have come at a better time. My grandmother, Sharon passed away in late July and I was going to buy a variety of the Rose of Sharron to plant in her memory! ❤
That blue chiffon is beautiful.
That’s gonna be a beautiful garden🌹😇
@@Bamboo4U2 Agreed!
What a beautiful act of remembrance. My grandmother's name is Myrtle and I planted a crape myrtle tree in her remembrance.
So sorry for your loss.
Good Evening from Victoria Australia ... with the very strict Covid restrictions we are in it is wonderful to watch your videos and take my mind off all that is going on ... Thank you 🤗🇦🇺😊
hi from Melbourne.
biggyziggy 577 another Melbournian here 👋
Rural sw Victoria here, port fairy.
Hello from Sydney- keep well.
Are the numbers of cases up ? Why are they being strict ? I've seen FB post of some horrible things where they are not allowing ppl to freely go about their business
Love the baby bump - I love babies.
It’s going to be a tall beauty. Lov that it’s a double bloomer. The Blue Chiffon is a beauty too.
Rose of Sharon is my absolute favorite, especially the “double” bloom. I highly recommend it as long as you have the space for it and keep it trimmed each year!
We can finally see the baby bump! Yay!
I would really love to see a pruning video on a rose of sharon. I have one but it grows fairly wild and I dont know how to properly prune them,or when.
I just planted one of these in my garden last night. When I saw it at the nursery I couldn't resist.
I agree with nearly everything Laura said about this plant except for it serving as a good screen.
It's deciduous and is the last among most plants to break dormancy so you'd only have that screen for several weeks out of the year but I bet it would look outstanding flanking medium-sized crape myrtles.
Laura should try to see if a crape myrtle would survive in her garden with her recent upgrade. The ones by me are still in bloom and started in mid-July! Eight weeks of blooms!
Mine are still in bloom too Jake!
@@CarolAnnHenderson i just wish people would realize they come in other colors than that (in my opinion) "screaming loud pink." HortTube has some great videos on different crape myrtle varieties. I've seen some beautiful purple and lavender ones that I'd love to have.
The Rose of Sharon is faithful to bloom all summer! An amazing plant. Mine is about 6 feet tall.
Got a little glimpse of your baby bump yeah. Looking forward to finding out what the new baby is going to be. Love that rose of Sharon. Perfect place for it. Thanks for all your wonderful videos. Enjoy your day. 💕💕💕💕
It's a girl.💃
Cheddar/Russell photo bomb! Love it! You are starting to show, so nice to see. Take it slow, if that word is in your vocabulary.
This is the first video I can actually see the baby bump! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have about 6/7 of the purple Rose of Sharon in my gardens and I love them. And they grow so fast!
I have hundreds..10 in ornamental spots, 1 pruned to tree form, and a 60 ft multi layered hedge.
I always love these videos that focus on one or a few specimens. Easy to find later and informative to watch.
Beautiful plant! Laura you're glowing in the garden this morning! 😊
Rose of Sharons are such great performers, blooming all summer. I have several in my garden. I even have a pink double Althea Rose of Sharon which is now in it’s full mature size of 13 feet talk, and it’s still blooming. Great choice for that spot in your garden.
Awesome!
I have been wanting a rose of sharon🤗
Sounds like they are deciduous though, correct?
Laura Land that is correct.
@@jennifersauer3257 Thanks!
White Rose of Sharon! Vertical upright growth habit will be awesome...so it will be easier if you want to train it into a standard! I would like one of these. Should look awesome in any space. 🤩🌱🌸🇨🇦
Hi Tracy! I love your channel, too!
73 year young , bladder cancer survivor here, I take pleasure in gardening and just planted a lavender RoS this after noon. I love members of the hibiscus family, have two Midnight Marvels, one Holy Grail in my red garden along with several red cannas, watch your videos religiously everyday. God bless.
Yey! Congratulations for reaching 1M subscribers Laura and Erin😊👏
Coffee with Laura, Aaron, and a lovely plant once again!! Another good choice to add to my list of items to see if it will work on our playground as we do have some areas that need a bit of privacy from the parking lot.
It's deciduous which makes it a poor choice for a screening plant. And it's also (as Laura said) one of the last plants to break dormancy.
Choose something else as a screen; something evergreen (arbs, holly, etc.).
Our Rose of Sharon has 3 colors of flowers. It has seeded itself into a hedge. 40 years and still going strong in Ohio.
Noice! I love the look of these..seems easy to maintain with a natural vase structure
Thank you for always sharing great information & advice for all of us! I just added a blue chiffon Rose of Sharon, and I'm very appreciative of you talking about adding the Soil Acidifier. We also have high ph soil, and I use the acidifier for my hydrangeas and luckily have plenty on hand - I'll be running outside after my coffee and adding some to my rose of sharon!
Hey Aaron love the "thumbs up" you gave yourself! I thought you deserved one for missing the drip tubing too.
yes, indeed
I would've shredded that tubing to pieces.
Found your channel during the pandemic. You have gotten us through some weird times. We have a relatively small gardening space for flowers but we have used so many of your ideas and tips, adapted them and worked within our budget to create some joyful projects of our own. We enjoy your work so much!! Also am thankful that you don't mention the pandemic much at all. We hear enough about it in "the real world". Thanks to you, Aaron, and Benjamin!
Beautiful! I believe these are part of the Hibiscus family.
I was hopeful for even a short garden tour. Love that she showed the other one.
I just planted my first rose of Sharon a couple of months ago & it is blooming now! I think I’ll add the white one to my fence row. Thanks
Best notification to wake up to! ::Instant warm fuzzies:: ☺️ Good morning everyone!
Thank you for going over the Rose of Sharon planting video. I have been wanted to get one ever since seeing them in your garden. Now I feel I more knowledge to get it in the ground. :)
Beautiful! I saw your sky looks clearer today... We live in Ohio and we now have the smoggy skies from the fires out west. I hope they can get them controlled soon and you guys stay safe !
Living in Spain, I did use rose of Sharon as a hedge privacy screen on a full westerly terrace... it is a gorgeous plant and would repeat that if I were to ever have the chance again! Loved seeing your ‘blue’ blooming one which reminded me of mine. Thank you 👍🏼
Wonderful! I planted a stance of these PW pink rose of sharon along the sunny side of my driveway a little earlier in the season, and they are fast growers that flower profusely! Truly delightful! I hand shoveled to plant, and am in love with the idea of using a large auger like what you folks have!! I hope to get one some day! Thanks for sharing this with all of us!! We love youtwo!!!
I love this plant, don't get me wrong, but I definitely wouldn't plant it along a driveway, sidewalk or any walkway.
The blooms only last a day and then they litter the ground around them and if you have a lot of rain like me, the spent blooms are slippery on walking surfaces.
@@Bamboo4U2 Thanks Jake! We live in the woods in the Smoky Mountains, and they sit back from the edge of a long winding driveway quite a bit. I call my property the "Flower Jungle," because it's a little wild down in here, as are we! Nothing too tailored or controlled going on. That's great advice though for more formal settings. I dead head them on my way up to get the mail each day. The rest just dissappear into the earth.
@@CarolAnnHenderson sounds pretty.
@@Bamboo4U2 True. I sweep my deck every morning to clean up the dropped blooms or they turn to slimey mush. I keep an empty pot nearby to collect.
Beautiful shrub. I have a huge rose of Sharon that is so pretty in the summer. Great plant.
I literally just planted this in my garden last week - the purple one!
I love love love Rose of Sharons! I love most anything in Malvaceae family, but I love that these are hardy even in my cold climate! I have had a few clients that complained about the flowers dropping and making a mess all year, but IMO the show is well worth a little extra raking!
We planted a white pillar in early May from gallon pot against a fence to add privacy screen with my neighbor. Since we live in a townhouse with small garden, this is going to be perfect. The shrub has already grown a couple of feet and has been blooming all summer. Next year I expect it to peak over the fence we share with neighbor. I have paired this one with the Sugar Tip Rose of Sharon on adjoining back fence which is also columnar and has gotten very tall. Along the remaining back fence of my yard are two more Rose of Sharons, a white Diana and a pink one with dark center. I pruned the pink one's lower branches when it was new to take more of a tree form; and it now arches to provide shade over our garden benches. I love the way these plants have softened all the neighboring hardscape and provide privacy and color for a long season.
My name is sharon and growing up we used to have a big pink bush rose of Sharon in my childhood home. I love the diversity of this plant. I plan to plant rose of Sharon when I have my own house some day
Hi Laura and Aaron! The Rose of Sharon looks so pretty there beside the Black Lace Elderberry. They really compliment each other. The Blue Chiffon Standard is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
I love how happy she looks in the thumbnail ☺️
Several of these would be perfect along my back fence as a privacy screen. Thanks for the info, Laura! 💚
I have three different varieties along back fence and one on side fence for privacy screening. We love them all.
Hurray! I have 2!! And have been waiting on to plant them. Now with your info. I know exactly where I want them! Thank you!
I like how compact the rose of Sharon is. Never tried that one before.
Wanted to let you know how peaceful and fun to watch your videos. Good news. No bad. Thank you for all your hard work. Karen
Great love it. I can see the baby bump and it looks so sweet. Thank you so very much for sharing.🌹🌹🌹
I planted my own Rose of Sharon this year. My flowers are pink and look like Carnations. I love it! Can’t wait for next year when it gets bigger. Wish I could share a pic with you. Thank you for being so inspiring to me.
Perfect timing as I get up for work
Hello from Canada! 🇨🇦❤️🎃
I have a hedge row of Rose of Sharons along my fence. They always get gasps from friends snd neighbors. A shining star in my opinion! So easy to care for too!
The kitties always seem to find you :) can we have Best Of Russell and Cheddar episodes PLEASE??
Love seeing this notification while trying to stay awake for night shift 🤩
Going to check this out! Love Rose of Sharon but they sprawl and I would love that growth habit!
Love all forms of Rose of Sharon!! I love the white, ....we have a pink one, double althea, smack dab in front of our house, it was here when we moved in. August 2017. I thought it was just a tree of some sort, no buds, blooms only leaves. The following fall, we had a few blooms and hummingbird feeding from it. 3 of 5 branches were dead, so I began removing the 'dead'. 2 of them were, but the 3rd stalk very much still alive. This yr literally one limb full of buds and blooms and the other bare stalk, but it was still alive. Ugghhh... I love them and hope next yr I can somehow help it thrive. This is beautiful fence line Laura and Aaron. ...Thank you for sharing.
If it doesn't, rip it out and replace it. It's your garden. Don't suffer poor-performing plants. Lots of other plants will thrive where that one isn't. (You could also take a cutting of that one and try to propagate a replacement. That's free.)
Rose of Sharon and the hibiscus take forever to bloom. It’s always worth the wait.
My favorite edible flower! Have you ever tried one? It is sweet and refreshing! Great all by itself. Very hydrating to.
I love all colors and styles of the "Rose of Sharon's", but my favorite is my "weeping peppermint stripe"! To be honest, it was a volunteer that came up under our grapevine that I moved to a spot on my property line. It's the only one I have and the only one in my neighborhood. I'm going to try my hand at propagation, and it's going to be the guinea pig! 😆
Very cool. Horttube on youtube has some great propagation videos.
Look at that cute little bump yall! 😍👶
I love the look of that plant! I am sad that it wouldn't do well in my zone 4b....oh well, I can't copy all your plants!😉 Thank you for showing us all the beautiful things!
The hardy hibiscus are though, no? (Hibiscus moscheutos)
My daily dose of gardening. An hour early today! Yayy!!!
I have 4 purple pillar and was considering the white version. I’m now sold. My local big box garden store only sells the purple version so that is another reason I haven’t planted the white.
My Purple Pillar started off at 3 feet and has already grown to about 7 feet tall...in 4 months!!!🥳
I ordered white pillar directly from Proven Winters
I planted two of the purple pillar last year and it’s been great so far.
Love seeing your baby bump!!💖
Hey Laura! I'm doing a project in school and I thought I would ask the gardening expert some of my questions!
What do you love about the garden? What do you hate about it? Why do you do it? What little things are harder than it should be in the garden? What are threats to your garden?
Thanks! I hope you have a good day :)
We planted on last month called red heart. It is gorgeous!
I love Rose of Sharon - we have always had one in our yards throughout the years. All purple blooms very similar to the one you shared but I planted it 15 years ago so I’m sure not the same variety.
Your formal garden gives me envy... That's so beautiful.. the white rose gives life... quick question? How do you know if roots need to be teased?
That will be beautiful there!! I have 4 blue chiffons in my yard, they are stellar!
I planted one of these in a memorial garden this summer. A precious young
man was violently taken from us aged 20 years. He would have been 50 years old in June. I have found gardening the best therapy for grieving.
💖💔💖
Really looks good. Your garden is wonderful
Aww Laura! I see baby making their presence known! I adore your sweet growing belly. Not in a weird way, honest!!
Funny story I hope you see...I started watching you after finding your vlogs randomly. I kept talking to my husband about new gardening ideas and he asked who I was getting it from and I said "my friend Laura." haha! I continue on and showed him some of the videos. I would talk to him about winter interest and he started calling you "the winter interest lady." So now if I tell him something new I learned or something I want to try after seeing your video I can't just call you Laura, I have to add "you know the winter interest lady!" and he'll know who I'm talking about. It's so funny for us and has now become our thing when we talk about our garden/flower bed.
Hope you and baby are doing great! Same for Benjamin and Aaron. ❤️
Perfect spot for the Rose of Sharon! I also have Rose of Sharon, several! They were given to me by my Dad who is no longer here to enjoy them with me. I have both white & purple! Everytime I look at them I remember my Dad! 😊😍🌺🌱💜💟❤
My dad used to grow them too. He said it was one of the first plants he had success with after failing with roses for years (pests).
Awesome! I have been thinking about adding a Rose of Sharon into my landscape, and your video helped me make up my mind. Thank you! Love all your videos. 🥰😄
Wow how cool! What a unique growth habit
Black lace elderberry, White rose of Sharon, awesome combo.
Oh! Thats going to be fantastic right there. I can not wait to see it come on. I want some of these my self. Thank you for sharing.
You should really consider changing your front entrance to the versailles garden - so very impressive!!
Two questions: how much privacy do the RoS branches provide when not in leaf? Also, how big does the standard form RoS get? Thanks for all your great advice and info!
During winter months and early spring, we are looking at sticks. So no privacy, but if your eyes focus on the foreground instead of neighbor/background.
Love the video, especially the orange kitty who makes a cameo appearance!
Thats gonna look great next to the Elderberry! Yea i got to see the blue Chevon rose of Sharon its pretty! I love blue! I like the way its shaped too! Congrats on 1m subscribers!! You guys are awesome!!
Amazing its early today
Yes I was excited to get the 6 am and not 7 am notice
they grow as weeds in our are, i always wondered why more people didnt grow here, they are absolutely gorgeous, the flowers are so pretty and last so long. good to know their name atlast.
Yep,I have to be pulling little ones , but it's manageable
Many of the newer varieties are more sterile but I have a hedge of them in all colors that I grew literally from twigs that self seeded in other parts of my yard.
Yes, they are prolific here in GA!
I'm in NJ and they're a bit of an annoyance in our yard 😬
@@martaferreirapires8656 the Proven Winners ones are sterile.
It's going to be beautiful!
I love the Rose of Sharon prolific blooms but so do the Japanese beetles in my area, zone 5b dry climate. Since Rose of Sharon also attracts pollinators, I didn’t feel that I could treat them and spent a lot of time picking the beetles off by hand into soapy water. So I removed 7 bushes this spring☹️ However, I did plant 9 hydrangeas this year🌞🌱🌞
How do you deal with the dead flowers of Rose of Sharons? They seem to be sludgy and stick to lower growing plants around the shrub. Since they bloom so profusely it made our groundcover look bad. The structure of this variety is so unique! Can't wait to see it mature.
Ian Komac you are so right about dead flowers... It's a downside.
Good morning Laura....nice video.....love from India 💞💞
I have 1 of the purple and 1 of the white with a burgundy center. They we my grandmother's and so beautiful.
Laura - you are brilliant!! We’ve been searching for just exactly what you discussed - a privacy hedge - unfortunately we’re zone 4. I do already have a Fine Lines Buckthorn that’s been growing so beautifully the last 8 years and at the time I planted it - a bit of privacy was the reason why I planted it in the first place!! Just forgot about the why, until you reminded me. I would love to plant a Rose of Sharon - suggestions if you think it might be possible in my zone! Or maybe other suggestions like ROS or is Buckthorn my only possibility. Thanks for the memory jog!! 😊💐👍🏼
Going to plant my Rosa Sherry plants for a future hedge. I have some all ready have some that are big. Thanks for sharing tips.
this is so unique and pretty!! can't wait to see it grow, wow! i do have an area in my yard where i need something just like that!! i will have to study the sun - my area is more part sun but that might work since i'm in a zone 10.... hmm 🙂 thanks for this!! another day of inspiration!!! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
They can grow in part sun.
Love the foliage
I planted the Purple PIllar this year in a corner of a garden bed where I wanted some height interest without losing too much real estate. It's looking good so far.
I lean a small trellis in front to keep the branches tight and upright.
@@22304abc Great idea! Thank you.
Ooooh what a great living fence idea !
I don't agree. And I don't know if that Laura's recommendation or Proven Winners but that's a deciduous shrub that breaks dormancy late, all of which, IMO, make it a poor choice for a privacy screen.
That will be so striking next to the Black Lace Elderberry!
what a great way to start my day!
So good to see you planting that there. You have the perfect eye for contrasting plants in your garden. It’s beautiful. How would I change my Rose of Sharon to a standard? I have several and am wanting to change one. Is this done from the baby stage, or could I do it to a 3 year old plant that is planted in a pot? I cannot find a standard in my area and I think your is just beautiful. Mine is about 3 ft tall. Thanks for the help and God bless. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
I planted one by my fence off of my back porch. Your spot is perfect. Laura, could you talk about daylilies sometime? I have such a problem with the foliage on them and I have lots I need to divide.
I think they're okay but I don't get how some people rave about them. They're not in bloom for a long time and (to me, IMO), their foliage isn't the greatest afterwards and by fall, it's mushy and gross like hostas.
I just planted Rose of Sharon Pink Chiffon & it's gorgeous!😍❤️🌸🌸🌸
We have these all over our yard but they’re the purple version. The previous home owners were obsessed with these flower bushes lol.
They probably self seeded. The old varieties are notorious.
My parents have one at the corner of the garage so so pretty love it see it as you drive up to the condo lots of blooms I late summer in southern ontario perfect !! 😍
Beautiful. Unfortunately, I'm in zone 2b.
Take care with the poor air out there. We got the haze last night in our sky with a weird red sun .... and we are in the centre of the continent.
We have the haze today in Massachusetts
I have a bit of an off topic question but how is the tree that cracked down the trunk?
I just got the pink sugar tip, and I absolutely love it! I believe that it's a double bloom, so it doesn't look so tropical to me...
Btw, good idea with the acidic stuff, good luck finding the iron tone... Someone said that it's discontinued...
I have a pink sugar tip too. It is very tall and a beautiful view from my kitchen window and provides the hardscape softening our yard needed. It grew slower than the white pillar, which we planted this spring. Every morning it looks like a fresh bouquet of flowers.
That's why I love it too! It was just that perfect soft touch. Even the leaves, just look so elegant to me...