Spinderella has a lively pinwheel pattern: large 8-inch white flowers with medium pink edges on every petal and a dark red eye. The effect is bright and cheerful in the late summer garden.
The dark green leaves form a tidy, dense, well-rounded plant 4 to 4½ feet tall and up to 5 feet wide, a clear improvement in form over older varieties with this flower type. It blooms from midsummer into early fall and makes a good centerpiece for a sunny bed.
What it looks like
A tidy, dense, well-rounded bush 48 to 54 inches tall and 54 to 60 inches wide of dark green leaves. Flowers are about 8 inches across, white with a band of medium pink along each petal edge, arranged in a pinwheel pattern around a dark red eye. Blooms are spread across the rounded plant. At peak the dark green dome is covered with large white-and-pink pinwheels.
Growing it with lavender
It likes full sun but needs far more moisture than lavender, so plant it in a regularly watered border or rain garden rather than in the lavender bed.
Care
Plant in full sun for the most flowers; part shade is tolerated. It grows in poor to fertile soil but needs consistent moisture and should never dry out for long; hardy in zones 4-9. It is slow to wake up in spring, so mark the spot, and cut the old stems to the ground in late fall or early spring.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hibiscus
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Flower color: White with pink edges and a dark red eye
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Foliage: Dark green
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Growth habit: Tidy, dense, rounded bush
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Mature size: 4 ft–54 in tall × 54 in–5 ft wide
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USDA hardiness zones: 4–9
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Light: full sun, part sun to part shade
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Bloom start: Mid-July
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Peak bloom: Mid-August
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Bloom pattern: Long Blooming
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Deer resistance: Moderately resistant
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Pollinator value: Great
Sizes and shipping
Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly. Hardy hibiscus arrives fully dormant and is one of the last perennials to wake up: expect no new growth until late May or June. That is normal, so plant it, water lightly and be patient.
Shipping note: Emerges late; dormant crowns look lifeless in spring until growth starts in late May or June.
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