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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 ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[โ€“] Fuckswearwords 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Followed suit today. Been putting it off for a few weeks now

[โ€“] IMALlama 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of those are looking pretty ripe! I like to try to get a block of time to go after the bush in long chunks, but that's not always possible. How big is yours / how many do you have? We have two. One is tiny (about 3 feet tall), but the other is pretty big/bushy (10 feet tall or so). The big one takes an hour or two to pull all the seed pods off...

[โ€“] Fuckswearwords 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have just one (really small garden). It's fairly big though, I'd guess around 10 feet high. I couldn't reach the top so there are still some pods there. Picture from the end of August for reference:

[โ€“] IMALlama 2 points 1 month ago

That's a very nice looking area. Your Roe of Sharon is much better pruned than ours - we more or less let it to wild and trim the sides if it's getting unruley. I also suspect yours is more mature based on the size of the trunk towards the top. Ours is still flexible enough that I can grab an offshoot and pull the whole branch it's connected to down.

Looking at yours, and thinking about our 3' tall one we grew from seed, I think our original plant is really a collection of a bunch of individual plants that were grown in a common pot.

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