Now is a good time, if the soil is dry enough to work. (mine is too wet still, so I'm postponing my planting for a little while longer.) Remember, you will be sacrificing most of this year's flowers on Constance Spry and Belle Isis if you move them before they bloom. Can you possibly wait till they bloom, cut them back a bit, and move them then? Connie

Hmm I mean transplant shock can differ as far as how long it lasts etc. I'd keep it well watered..maybe add the root hormone to the water. I wouldn't fertilize just yet? If it needs to make roots, idk if that would be too much for it or if you do fertilize use something that has a really low number for the first number maybe? You could prune them some, nothing too severe but maybe a few canes to force it to want to 'grow' perhaps. Whatever you do I'd keep it well watered for a while, adding in the root hormone to help it along. And leave it alone, allow it time to recover esp where it wasn't really taken care of when it was yanked out and afterwards. Let it stay for this season and see what happens next spring.

So, while not ideal leaving the rootball exposed for an extended period of time, 25 degrees is probably not cold enough to have killed the roots on a Rose of Sharon. Root desiccation is also a concern but hopefully you dodged that one too.

Thank you! I will look into the oil! Was it supposed to be neem oil? i did have a NASTY infestation of aphids and Japanese beetles. Didn’t see any on these but that could be because they got hit first