well thank you, I am a gardener and hadn't heard that this plant was invasive!

Thanks people. My rampage has commenced.

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).]

Hate them. Kill.

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you want to kill?

It’s in her hedge.

Oh, burn!

Thanks all! Such a pretty name for a rather meh plant. Leaves are pretty but it’s really not much as far as flowers.

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.

Kill, and pull all seedlings. They are such a PITA. They will produce a million seedlings year after year.

Kill, before you have a Rose of Sharon hedge. It's a non-native invasive.

Good luck trying to kill it, IME.

It’s one of my least favorite plants, along with mahonia, nandina and English ivy. I’d get rid of it.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you want to kill?

It’s in her hedge.

Why do you want to kill?

I’ve got several growing in my hedge