Rose of sharon: keep or kill?
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Anonymous
| I’ve got several growing in my hedge |
Anonymous
| Why do you want to kill? |
Anonymous
It’s in her hedge. |
Anonymous
| It’s one of my least favorite plants, along with mahonia, nandina and English ivy. I’d get rid of it. |
Anonymous
| Good luck trying to kill it, IME. |
Anonymous
| Kill, before you have a Rose of Sharon hedge. It's a non-native invasive. |
Anonymous
| Kill, and pull all seedlings. They are such a PITA. They will produce a million seedlings year after year. |
Anonymous
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Kill because invasive. Especially if in the hedge -- it will take over.
I do actually love hibiscus, though. There are kinds of hibiscus that are native to this area (look for swamp hibiscus or eastern rose-mallow) that I think are beautiful. I love that they are late summer bloomers and have such big, vivid flowers. I have a neighbor with these and sunflowers planted along her side yard and I enjoy seeing that part of her yard bloom in August. |
Anonymous
| Thanks all! Such a pretty name for a rather meh plant. Leaves are pretty but it’s really not much as far as flowers. |
Anonymous
Oh, burn! |
Anonymous
| I love Rose of Sharon but I have accepted that it's an abusive relationship and if I want to keep my big one I will spend the rest of my life digging up little ones. |
Anonymous
| Hate them. Kill. |
Anonymous
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Unless it is a mature tree, there is no environmental reason not to replace a plant you don't like or to remove an invasive volunteer plant from your yard.
[Mature trees require more thought and planning about the benefits v. consequences of removal (e.g. flooding; breaking the ecosystem that is relying on the tree; the reality that you can't ever truly "replace" an old tree because it takes decades to become an old tree).] |
Anonymous
| Thanks people. My rampage has commenced. |
Anonymous
| well thank you, I am a gardener and hadn't heard that this plant was invasive! |