Hardy Hibiscus

Bofig

Bofig

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Anyone out there grow hardy hibiscus? I have for a couple years with the Luna mix. I purchased a dark one but didn’t get many blooms and need to move it to a brighter area for more blooms. My Luna mix seedlings have created tons of seeds each year so this year I took some from 2024 and got great germination. I’ll be planting these out in the yard and will offer seeds for sale on my site now for older seed and also hopefully this fall with some newer darker foliage types.

I’m not usually a flower guy but these things are huge and they die back to the ground each winter coming back to flourish loaded with huge flowers.
 

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Haven’t given them a try personally but my wife grows Roselle Hibiscus in my garden (potted). And the flavor of that hibiscus tea is great hot or cold, it a great tea or a refresher if served cold. Might get into them honestly haha, are the ones you’re growing edible too?
 
BNaula1 said:
Haven’t given them a try personally but my wife grows Roselle Hibiscus in my garden (potted). And the flavor of that hibiscus tea is great hot or cold, it a great tea or a refresher if served cold. Might get into them honestly haha, are the ones you’re growing edible too?
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That I don’t know, I’ve heard all hibiscus are but I haven’t looked into it to know for sure. I have grown the edible hibiscus that you eat leaves before but I wasn’t fond of the gooey consistency lol I grew chief kubos and two others I got off Etsy.
 
snarfing said:
Theres a few native hibiscus i want to grow. Swamp rose mallow has those huge dinner plate sized blooms. Theres nativars out there for different colors

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https://bonap.net/Napa/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Hibiscus highly rec looking to see if any is native to you. Lime green = native
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The natives here in Iowa are much smaller like 4-5” max and shades of pinks or whites, almost all the big blooms are heavy selection and hybrids. They look the same almost just smaller blooms. I have yet to see a lime green flower so now I must dig harder lol.
 
Bofig said:
The natives here in Iowa are much smaller like 4-5” max and shades of pinks or whites, almost all the big blooms are heavy selection and hybrids. They look the same almost just smaller blooms. I have yet to see a lime green flower so now I must dig harder lol.
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Haha no I meant on bonap. I dont know if lime green hibiscus exist.
 
Bofig said:
The natives here in Iowa are much smaller like 4-5” max and shades of pinks or whites, almost all the big blooms are heavy selection and hybrids. They look the same almost just smaller blooms. I have yet to see a lime green flower so now I must dig harder lol.
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I haven’t yet seen one. I think Snarfing meant the wood is lime green. The pic I posted is a hybrid (I’m blaming on the name) with dinner plate size flowers and very dark leaves, which is a gorgeous contrast.
 
I have several growing Coppertown, a Dark Red a Bright Pink and either a white or white and pink carousel... I meant to plot them into the ground last year will soon but ive failed to label them well lol

I grew alot of Rose of Sharon's from seed of a Columnar type and three I have loom dwarf and a variety I got from ebay. I kept whatvwr survived the weather and im planning to plot them as they bloom
 
Does anyone here want seeds of mine?
It’s a hybrid, so no idea what the flowers will look like or even if the seeds are still viable, but the blooms are 7+ inches across, very dark foliage.

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