The downside to having a Rose of Sharon - eviltoast

Pros:

  • Massive quantities of flowers for about 3 months
  • Bees love the blooms
  • The plant doesn’t need any care to thrive
  • We’ve transplanted a few of the seedlings. They’re true to their parent in terms of color, but the parents seems like a double bloom and the children seem like single bloom
  • If you want a hedge, this seems like a good option

Cons:

  • Seeds! So many seeds. Each of its hundreds (thousands?) of flowers will produce 10+ seeds. They all don’t germinate, but it’s a numbers game. If you want to avoid pulling volunteers up you’re best off pulling the seed pods off the plant before they open on their own

I pulled ~2 gallons of seed pods off a week prior to this picture. My wife dumped them in the compost, so no epic 5+ gallon photo 😭

  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldOP
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    29 days ago

    Thankfully the seeds don’t seem very robust. This is year three of just tossing them into the pile and none have grown in it so far.