Why choose Proven Winners Proven Winners searches the world to bring you vibrant flowering annuals, perennials and shrubs that deliver the most beautiful garden performance. When you garden with Proven Winners, you'll surely fall in love with the carefully curated collection. Proven Winners plants have been proven in trails conducted in numerous sites worldwide to be, easy to grow and care for, bright and colorful, long blooming, covered with blooms, healthy and vigorous and trailed and tested. These premium young dormant plants ship in an 1 qt. pot, without leaves nor flowers in its sleeping beauty stage as it is all about starting with a solid foundation of roots. Dormant potted plants are less likely to be shocked by adverse shipping conditions and/or initial planting and save; shipping weight, time and money. Hibiscus Purple Pillar, Hibiscus syriacus 'Gandini Santiago' PP#25,568, CBR#6178 will be Proven Winners 2023 Landscape Shrub Of The Year. It's also know as Rose of Sharon. Purple Pillar is a very narrow, fastigiate habit much like Fine Line Rhamnus, but with semi-doubled purple flowers in the summer. Space saving plant. Award Winning: 2012 Plantarium Silver Medal, 2016 Honorable Mention - Farwest Show, 2017 Direct Gardening Association Green Thumb Award.