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Feb 08, Rose of Sharon is an old fashioned favorite so it is common for gardeners to inherit one of these shrubs when they move into a new home and more often than not it will be overgrown. Young plants can be cut back pretty hard to encourage branching, but when reshaping an overgrown plant such as yours I always recommend removing only about a third of the length of the bushcutting.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.

Then, use your loppers or pruning saw to take off all smaller branches around it up to about half the height of the new trunk.

Jun 04, Bob Bricault, Horticulture Educator for Michigan State University Extension explains how to prune a Rose of Sharon using thinning and heading back cuts. May 01, How to prune rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus).

Rose of Sharon should be dormant pruned to remove crossing branches, branches that grow back into the shrub.

Jul 23, In general, prune all stems back to the second swelling bud from the ground from late winter until the plant produces leaves; don't cut Rose of Sharon to the ground completely. The plant can.