Hibiscus syriacus 'America Irene Scott' SUGAR TIP® Rose-of-Sharon
size/type
medium-sized shrub,medium-sized shrub
usual height
1,5-2,5m
usual width
1-1,5m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
showy
colour of flowers
blooming time
July-September
location
full sun
soil type
neutral
soil moisture requirements
tolerates (but does not demand) wet ground
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Rose-of-Sharon deserves more attention for its abundant flowering in summer. These maintenance-free shrubs come from eastern Asia and are the inevitable ingredient of every summer garden which they highlight with a wide range of coloured flowers. There has been a number of cultivars available since its discovery. They have various bloom colours, shapes and sizes, as well as variegated leaves.
Description of the plant:
Sugar Tip® is a unique Rose-of-Sharon variety, one of the very few with variegated foliage. Its flowers are 6-7 cm across, fully double, very soft pink with deep burgundy red eye in the centre which is difficult to see for the many dwarf petals. Blooming usually begins in late July and continues until sunny and warm days of September. Deciduous leaves are narrowly palmate, deeply lobed, pale green with elegant, thin, creamy white margins. They emerge late so don't worry about frost damage when you don't see any growth in a spring garden that is green almost all around. Sugar Tip is a compact variety reaching only about 1.5m tall in 10 years and its ultimate mature height is expected not to exceed 2.5m. SUGAR TIP® was discovered by Sharon Gerlt from Independence in Missouri, USA, in 2001 as a mutation of Lady Stanley variety. US plant patent No. PP20579 was granted in 2009.Regular pruning of shrubby hibiscus is not necessary or even welcome, though, you can re-juvenate old plants once every 5 or 7 years but cutting off 1/3 to 1/2 of its size, ideally in spring after all frosts.
Rose-of-Sharon is quite adaptable of soil type. It likes a lot of water and if you make sure that your new plant is not put to standing water at the beginning it will be happy for occasional flooding in summer. In other words, hibiscus hate drought and becomes leggy and thin at the bottom. Older plants dislike peat. Selective fertilizers for better flowering are convenient. Place it in full sun only. Fully hardy to min. -27 °C (USDA zone 5).
Last update 29-08-2019; 13-05-2023
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
