Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Lil' Kim Violet Rose of Sharon is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Lil' Kim Violet Rose of Sharon features bold hot pink trumpet-shaped flowers with violet overtones and crimson throats along the branches from mid summer to early fall. It has green deciduous foliage. The lobed leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Lil' Kim Violet Rose of Sharon will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to be a little leggy | with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 4'Hx4'W

Flowers are hot pink

Flowers from mid summer to early fall

Attracts butterflies; hummingbirds

Zone 4b

Likes average to moist soil