I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth. Please
help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

It looks to be HIBISCUS SYRIACUS L., aka Shrub Althea, also called
Rose-of-Sharon

Dave

"Harold Hoglund" wrote in message
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I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.
Please
help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

David J Bockman wrote:

It looks to be HIBISCUS SYRIACUS L., aka Shrub Althea, also called
Rose-of-Sharon

Dave

"Harold Hoglund" wrote in message
I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.

Please

help identify!

Seconded!
Buzzy

--

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www.buzzys.net
"Have you tried Freeware?"

Don't know where you looked. Do a google image search.

It is a white double flowered Hibiscus syriacus.

Finding the actual cultivar name, if any, is another story.


Harold Hoglund wrote in message
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I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.
Please
help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

It is a Hibiscus, but it's a perennial type called Rose of Sharon. It forms
a bush and is deciduous (loses all leaves in winter). I have two on the
side of my house in full sun and they are a favorite of Japanese Beetles,
although they really didn't bother my yard this year. Mine are a medium
pink in color.

Penny
Zone 7b - North Carolina
"Harold Hoglund" wrote in message
...
I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.
Please
help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

"Harold Hoglund" wrote in message
...
I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.
Please help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

I have a pink one:
http://www.paghat.com/roseofsharonmyths.html
http://www.paghat.com/roseofsharon.html

-paggers

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

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"Harold Hoglund" wrote in message
...
I bought a supposed Hibiscus from Home Depot. It does not appear to be so.
Checking the web, all the pictures I found did not look like my plant. The
flower looks a lot like a white rose, although the stems are smooth.
Please help identify!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/hoglundh/ho..._home_page.htm

An email would be appreciated



Thanks!

I have a pink one:
http://www.paghat.com/roseofsharonmyths.html
http://www.paghat.com/roseofsharon.html

-paggers


Thanks to everyone who responded, I guess I was expecting the flowers
to open more and look more like the pictures I saw on the web. Also
the leaves look very different.

Harold

In article ,
(Harold Hoglund) wrote:


Thanks to everyone who responded, I guess I was expecting the flowers
to open more and look more like the pictures I saw on the web. Also
the leaves look very different.

Harold

I thought it looked inadequately potted. It should have a great deal more
soil for its roots, & would likely do better in the yeard, but would even
potted become bushier with more & very humousy soil. My experience is
individual flowers don't last long, but there are a great many of them
opening serially in their season. And the flowers should open almost flat
in fullest sun.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

It looks like your bush is a "Rose of Sharron". It falls within the hybiscus
family and is a very hardy and easy to grow bush. Email if you have any

That is the GENUS Hibiscus. (note spelling.)

The SPECIES is Hibiscus syriacus, commonly called "Rose of Sharon". (note
spelling)

However, the plant is in the FAMILY Malvaceae not the Rosaceae.

You are being e-mailed because you didn't have the correct answers.
You also lose points for incorrect spelling.


MWhite3660 wrote in message
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It looks like your bush is a "Rose of Sharron". It falls within the
hybiscus
family and is a very hardy and easy to grow bush. Email if you have any