If you let them get big the stems are hollow. You can make a pan pipe from them. ( I didn't know this until a few minutes ago.) Now I want some.
This confederate rose took Helene's winds and still kept most of its buds, even starting to stand back up a little.
Those are apparently closely related to the Rose of Sharon, as both of them are in the hibiscus family. We have several Rose of Sharon bushes, and our blossoms are the singles, not the doubles, so the flowers look more like the hibiscus than the rose blossom. I was just reading about the difference, and it said that the Rose of Sharon can grow further north than the Confederate Rose. This is how our Rose of Sharon blossoms look.
Close up of flower; on this one. We got it from one of our neighbors, several years back; she passed last year. She said it was a confederate rose. I never checked on it. They sure look like they are related to me.
This is a link about it, see if it works. https://www.jamesfarmer.com/jamesfarmer/2010/10/confederate-rose-rose-by-any-other-name.html#:~:text=Confederate Rose , A Rose by Any Other Name.... So the Confederate Rose, a hibiscus kin, is a staple in the Southern landscape and fabulous specimen in the garden.
They have pretty flowers. I had a beautiful rose or sharon for a few years, it die suddenly. It was a seedling from one my daughter had growing in her yard.
Last night I couldn't think of a name of a plant I have in the backyard. During my online search, I came across this really nice and different plant call a Moonlight Butterfly Begonia. It looks Artificial, the company that was showing it was selling the seeds. Has anyone had these if so how long is bloom time? SEE PHOTOS
They grow waaaaayyyyy up here in Wisconsin. I have one like yours growing out my dining room window which I love from August on. I bought a blue one for the front of the house but a deer came and took it down to the ground so I have chicken wire over it and it may take a couple of years to bloom.