Q: I have a rose-of-sharon tree that is several years old and about 6 feet tall. Every year, it gets lots of buds, but only about half end up opening up. The rest dry up and fall off. Is this some ...

These plants, like other rose of Sharon cultivars, flower best in full sun but can also handle shadier locations if necessary ...

Rose of Sharon blooms on new wood. This means the flowers that appear in summer come from buds that develop on the plant just a few weeks prior to bloom-time. In contrast, many spring-blooming ...

Q: My rose of Sharon fails to flower. Why? A: I’ve observed these shrubs to be dependable garden dwellers to the south of our region. And it does nicely in many a Connecticut landscape ...

I have about a dozen Rose of Sharon bushes and every year at summer's end I have to clip off the seed pods that result from the lovely flowers that bloomed earlier in the summer. There are ...