Peppermint Smoothie™ Rose of Sharon Shrub

Cooling and creamy, the Peppermint Smoothie™ Rose of Sharon Shrub (Hibiscus syriacus 'DS04PS') is just the minty-fresh ruffled double bloom your garden needs this year! These flowers pick up on their tropical-looking Hibiscus cousins, and are an amazing cool-as-a-cucumber pink that’s soothing and fully double! You'll love the Hummingbirds and butterflies that arrive to check out these gorgeous flowers all summer through fall!

You might guess the flowers look like large Carnations or even Peony blooms! The flowers are born in profusion from mid-summer into fall! The leaves are smaller, serrated, and shiny green for an overall fine texture! Growing to a decent-sized shrub that's densely branched and 6-8 feet tall and spreading to about 4-5 feet wide! Its adaptability allows you more options to use these low-maintenance plants anywhere in the full-sun garden!

Doing incredibly in both heat and the sun, Althea shows up on the garden scene a bit late to get growing in the spring - but boy is it worth the wait! Rose of Sharon, also known as woody Hibiscus, has a hardy nature. These are deciduous hardy Hibiscus family members that thrive in USDA zones 5-9!

Planting and Application:

The incredible double-petalled flower display just begs to be planted where you can see them all growing season long. Use Peppermint Smoothie™ shrubs as a backdrop to your Cottage, Perennial or Rose gardens - sure to set the stage beautifully for all other flowering and foliage plants! Butterfly garden accents, poolside privacy plantings, and softening an outbuilding's corner - the choice is yours!

A single Peppermint Smoothie™ Althea bush for an amazing accent anchoring your sunny foundation planting or the crown jewel in a courtyard. Such a showy shrub commands a high-profile location in your yard! This is a classic focal point shrub and a glorious ornamental flowering specimen! Picture one in a large container or planter near your back patio or porch.

Mix and match with other Althea trees and shrubs, including pairing minty pink Peppermint Smoothie™ Rose of Sharon with its siblings - Blueberry Smoothie™ and Raspberry Smoothie™, for a multi-dimensional landscape! No room? Try training your shrub into a magnificent multi-trunked tree form!

• Creamy Minty Peppermint Pink Double Blooms
• Massive Flower Display Mid-Summer to Fall
• Dense Multi-Branched Shrub Form
• Butterflies & Hummingbirds!
• Sterile, Non-Invasive Selection
• Fantastic Flowering Ornamental Accents, Specimens & Focal Points

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Peppermint Smoothie™ Althea will love a full sun, hot, dry location in your yard once the plants are established, and can be very drought tolerant, requiring little additional water without sacrificing any quality, growth, or flower power! It is an amazingly easy plant to grow, tolerating almost any well-drained soil and any site as long as it is sunny. Prune before they leaf out and then leave them alone to produce those amazing flowers on the new growth.

• Full Sun
• Almost Any Well-Drained Soil
• Moderate Moisture Needs
• Blooms on New Wood - Prune Late Winter/Early Spring
• Drought Tolerant & Easy to Grow
• Prune Early Spring - Blooms on New Wood

An amazing, colorful and showy shrub, the Peppermint Smoothie™ Althea has creamy minty pink blooms that flower non-stop, long after most other blooming deciduous plants have called it quits. Buy yours online at NatureHills.com before they're gone!