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Join David in our nursery and find out how this STUNNING Rose of Sharon introduction from First Editions® will bring brilliant and exciting color to outdoor areas around your home. Discover how it's pristine white flowers (each have a sumptuous raspberry-red center) are produced in such tremendous profusion that they almost hide all the dark green foliage. Often produced during the hottest parts of the summer🌞 and lasting all the way through to mid-Autumn, this is wonderful shrub for bringing a fresh, cooling look to borders, foundation plantings and mixed borders. Listen in as David discusses the reliability and resilience of Altheas or Rose of Sharon, find out how this amazingly colorful shrub is perfectly suited to the conditions of our region. Then discover what you can do to encourage the maximum amount of long-lasting, easy to look after color.
To conserve energy and encourage extended repeat bloom, remove old flowers before they form seed heads or lightly trim plants back after the main flush of flowering has finished.
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Well hello and welcome to Over the Vest nurseries on a beautiful morning when I have to say it's
just wonderful to be outside. And as you look around the nursery you'll see something of the
wide selection of plants that we grow here in our nurseries. Ones that have been especially selected
for their performance in our region, that's the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Lots
of really good plants that I think you will enjoy growing in your garden, and certainly ones that as
you see will bring lots and lots of valuable color. And if you're interested in finding out
more about them, can I suggest that you click and subscribe to this channel, and then as we produce
these videos you'll be first in line to learn about all the exciting varieties that you can
grow in your garden too. And speaking about coloring the garden, if you look out your window
and you think your garden looks a little drab at the end of the summer, can I suggest that you
think about growing this fabulous variety of Rose of Sharon. This is Hibiscus serraecus, and the variety
is Bali from First Editions, for here is a variety as you see that literally is just covered with
lots and lots of flowers. This is one that's going to make your garden come alive with these fabulous
quite large three to four inch wide flowers that have this lovely kind of semi-double flower,
white with a beautiful strawberry red streak, raspberry red streak really, to the middle of the
flower. And what's fantastic about it is that they're carried in tremendous profusion on plants
that get to about five, six to eight foot high by about five to seven foot wide. So this is going to
make a beautiful upright vase-shaped plant that's going to provide a beautiful specimen if you were
to set it in say a lawn setting, you could certainly put it into beds and borders, it would make a
lovely kind of screening plant for an informal flowering hedge or screen, and you could use it
for lining things like driveways and pathways if you have a larger site. And when you see all of
these flowers now clustered together, it gives you some idea of the fantastic impression you will get
if you're able to mass them also. A really fabulous variety that was raised at the famous
Minié nurseries in the Loire Valley in France, and introduced by First Editions. It's hardy to zone
five, so it will grow anywhere within our region, and all of these flowers are produced on growth
made during the current year. Now you don't need to do this, but if you wish, you can go in to your
plant when you have it at home and prune it hard back in springtime, and you're going to get lots of
resultant growth, and then on all of that growth you're going to get all of these beautiful buds
that then open up to these absolutely fabulous flowers. If you don't have the inclination to do
spring pruning, that's okay, it will still grow and it will still flower, but as you see whenever you
produce lots of bright, young, fresh, luxuriant growth, then you get lots and lots of gorgeous
flowers. So it's up to you whether you want to do that or not. The one thing about this is that they
do like to grow in a well-drained site, but the fabulous thing about all of these Rose of Sharon
and Althea is, if you drive through neighborhoods, older neighborhoods, this will bear out what I'm
saying, is that they simply love our climate here in our region. They're hardy to zone 5 as I say,
so plenty hardy, but they love to grow in a sunny, open, warm place like we have here. So that's a
fabulous plant that really enjoys growing in our conditions, and will bring absolutely fantastic
color to your garden at a time when very often there isn't a whole lot else flowering in the
garden. Certainly something that will put up with the heat and the drought too, if it needs to,
though I have to say it grows better when it's given good soil conditions. This is a fantastic
variety of Hibiscus syriacus. This is Hibiscus Bally from First Editions.
