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daylily77
Dream Gardener
Member # 10470

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Can anyone identify this flowering tall (shrub?) Three of my neighbors have them and they don't even garden, yet they all look beautiful! I guess they are VERY low maintenance! Thanks!

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TulsaRose
Super Gardener
Member # 7071

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Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)...very low maintenance and a real work horse in any garden setting. Right now, due to the heat, my Rose of Sharons and Mexican Petunias are the ONLY things reliably blooming.

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Posts: 745 | From: Tulsa OK | Registered: Oct 2005 | Logged: 68.14.167.179

daylily77
Dream Gardener
Member # 10470

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Thanks so much! It's really beautiful. I was looking around and realized that even more than three of my neighbors have it! Six do (that I can see from here)! I'm thinking that someone must've planted them all in here at once since I live in townhouses. I really like them, too bad I don't have one! Instead the person who lived here before me put in this patio that makes my patio kind of hook up to my next door neighbor's - a patio in the center of our patios! And now she has her table there so I can't use that space (which she never uses). I bet they killed the Rose of Sharon to do it. [Frown]