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Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Fred SC on September 18, 2024, 3:20 pm Here is a picture of my ‘Blue Satin Rose of Sharon thst look Volke it was dying(all scraggly) that I cut down earlier in the summer because it looked like it might be dying from all the dry heat, but I couldn’t cut it the ground because I didn’t have the tool to do it right then so I hadn’t got around to it . Now it’s reblooming so I’m not gonna cut it down. I’m gonna leave it. . It is a pretty one s as gain, the blooms are bigger than ever! https://i.ibb.co/4K104K7/IMG-5583.jpg

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by David-Shenandoah Valley of VA on September 18, 2024, 4:53 pm, in reply to "Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." It looks really good. Apparently the pruning you did earlier in the year was enough. Speaking of dryness, did you get any rain from that tropical depression that came ashore the other day? The system moved northward and I read that back home we got almost 2 inches from it since yesterday. I'm in Delaware at the moment and they currently are a little on the dry side also. They've gotten about an inch from this system.

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Fred SC on September 18, 2024, 6:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." David, we maybe had a half inch. or not sure. Areas just to our east got a llot of heavy rain! Yes, the bush looked like death was on the horizon but I cut 80 percent off and it immediately in just days, begin to put out new leaves and then flowers.

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Rob N TN on September 18, 2024, 10:42 pm, in reply to "Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Beautiful cultivar. Since we are in a drought, mine only blooms when I keep it watered for a couple of days. Fred we got a couple of misty showers on this side of the Appalachians in the recent Carolina tropical wave and missed 2.5" of rain by 36 miles to my west in the gulf hurricane. I think I will water everything in the morning. Your Blue Satin will do great watered. Thanks.

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Alvin, z6 on September 18, 2024, 11:03 pm, in reply to "Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Fred, looks like you gave your Rose of Sharon, a low cut. Good it grew back. I give mine haircut, in late winter-early spring, before the leaf buds break. Good thing that Altheas bloom on new wood, or else, you'd have to wait until next year for more blooms. Your Blue Satin looks like my Bluebird.

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Fred SC on September 19, 2024, 6:42 am, in reply to "Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Yes, Rob, watering the Rose of Sharon helps. It has been super hot this summer. I have a lot of plants, especially in my back yard , that have to be dug up and replanted somewhere where they don’t get all the hot afternoon sun, because these hot summers are not gonna be any less hot or maybe dry in the future. I have watered my backwoods about all summer once a week or something . The water bill has been quite high because of cost of sewers added on. After I cut my large trees down about half of my back woods Gets hot all day long now. About half of the Hydrangeas have to be moved. They are hear stressed. . Another Summer in the present locations will kill them. I’m gonna move them to the other side of the yard with it shade all day and they should be great. I have some Gerber Daisies in the front yard that haven’t done well this summer and will have to be moved to the backyard. I have Gerber daisies there in the backyard that bloomed all summer and looked beautiful. I kinda let my yard get away from me this summer because I haven’t been able to get out and do much especially in the heat of the day. I hope to remedy that in the fall and winter.

In Posted by Fred SC on September 19, 2024, 6:49 am, in reply to "Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Well , Alvin, my intentions was to cut it back to the ground and then dig up the route but I ran out of energy . It was getting hot, so I stopped. I hadn’t felt like going out and finishing the job , but now it looks so good. I’m going to leave it. I will cut s my Althea’s back this winter. All those in back have about grown to large. I can hardly get around the back of my deck because they’re so large. I will cut back rather heavily this winter when the heart Dr says I can. He won’t let me do much still yet.

heat Posted by Rob N TN on September 19, 2024, 9:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Be careful this fall moving plants Fred. It sure has been hot this summer. Mid 80*s at this minute in the evening. Looks like a see-saw of temps soon, up and down and up again. We get rain here next Wednesday 40% and better than nothing. Thanks

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Tom in PA on September 21, 2024, 7:10 pm, in reply to "Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Love this hibiscus Fred. Very beautiful! I have one this color also.

Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming. Posted by Fred SC on November 9, 2024, 1:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Cut back Blue Satin, reblooming." Thanks, Tom.

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