Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon is a durable and easy-to-grow variety perfect for narrow spaces. Its columnar form makes it an excellent choice for creating hedges or screens, providing vibrant summer color in tight spots. The plant produces large, semi-doubled flowers in a striking purple shade, with magenta-red centers that bloom continuously throughout the summer. With its limitless landscape potential, Purple Pillar® is ideal for narrow hedges, privacy screens, formal gardens, entryways, and decorative containers, offering a bold and elegant display wherever it’s planted. 

• 10-16 feet tall and 4-5 feet wide at maturity
• Hardy in zones 5-9, be sure to check your USDA zone to ensure success
• Plant in full sun (6+ hours daily)
• Space plants 4-5 feet apart for best results
• Produces purple semi-double flowers with magenta-red centers throughout summer
• Maintains green foliage spring to frost
• Blooms on new wood
• Great for borders, containers, screening, landscape, mass planting or as a focal point
• Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds while resisting deer
• Heat, drought and salt tolerant, long blooming, low maintenance

Care: Fertilize with Proven Winners Continuous Release Plant Food in spring and mid-summer. Requires well-draining soil. Regular pruning is not necessary. If any shaping is desired, do so in early spring. Note that Rose of Sharon is quite late to leaf out in spring, so be patient with it.

Shipping Info:

• Enjoy free shipping on orders over $125
• Size at shipping varies by the season and plant
• Quart shrubs are 5-8 in. at the time of shipment
• 1 Gallon shrubs are 6-24 in. at the time of shipment
• Shrubs shipped Nov-Apr will arrive dormant; shrubs shipped Apr-Oct will arrive green or in bloom

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