Pruning:

• Prune in late winter or early spring before buds form.
• Remove dead, damaged, or diseased branches.
• Eliminate crisscrossing branches or branches that are rubbing against each other.
• Remove suckers from the bottom of the trunk.
• Avoid pruning in late summer and fall.
• For old Rose of Sharon, do rejuvenation pruning by cutting the plant back by two-thirds of the total size. May not bloom that year.