Jewelgirl04 I got your email and replied. I would love to trade. I have plenty more if anybody else out there would like some. They are realated to the Hibiscus so they have very large flowers when they bloom. They are seed and spread like crazy. These are extremely easy to make hedges with. :P David

bently on, The easiest way I have found to root hardy Rose of Sharon is to take 4 inch long cuttings of just thickened fairly new stem tips from the shrub, just prior to its setting bloom buds period. Remove all the leaves except the top two or three, and pinch off any suggestions of pre-bloom bud forming bumps that might be found near the top most end of the tip. You should have taken 4 or 5 such tips. Next, insert them into individual, moistened soil, pots that you prefilled with clean well draining potting soil. Press the potting soil firmly around each inserted stem, and sprinkle the pots with more water. Then put all of them under the shadiest side (possibly the Northeast side) under a dappled shade tree's canopy. This will work best if there is also a privacy fence or other similar thing which produces such eastern shade. A covered patio might also provide enough filtered light. keep the pots gently sprinkled. or even misted if you have such a set-up. Making sure keep the soil moist, but not soggy. by late fall your tips should be well rooted enough to repot them into one size up pots and then sink those, pots into a sheltered planting bed. Let the young rose of sharon go dormant and cover them with mulch or straw through the coldest part of the winter. In the following Spring, just before they break dormancy, plant them out into the landscape bed where you want them to continue growing.

The only place I see listed is in the Netherlands and it is listed as a florist rose like hoovb said. Longwood may have imported it, which is a very involved, lengthy and expensive process that they would have the resources to do. It's fairly new and patented so I doubt you'll find it available anywhere here.

I just checked Ebay and they have 3 or more places selling seeds or plants. I got mine at Hirt's. But it was small, but healthy.