For Hibiscus Lovers ....

"Magnificent", needless to say...

 

Nice large flowers Victoria:thumb:

 

It's Hibiscus season again and the Newbiscus has opened her first bloom of the year ... which is swiftly getting battered by high gusty winds ...





The double red is looking spectacular ...



... and the peachy orange is lovely ...



The Columbine, Double Peach Blow and white with red throat are in bud and soon to open.

 

You have quite a collection there Victoria.

The seed you sent me of the Newbiscus have not germinated.
I'm just wondering if they need stratification being the plants are fairly hardy.

 

Thank you pete ... sorry, I thought I answered this (may have answered, previewed and not posted whichI have been known to do :DOH but I didn't think they needed to be stratified ... If you'd like to try again, let me know.

Hibiscus are such one-day wonders, especially in the heat and the Newbiscus needs watering twice a day. Stangely the doubles last a couple of days.

Here's Big Pink not being blown around in the wind ...





... and Columbine doing quite well ...






PS That's by no means rain but I had just watered!

Still haven't got a pic of the white with red throat yet ...

 

Fantastic Victoris - just fantastic. You don't seem many like that in gardens round here in Yorkshire.

I had a couple of more mundane ones last year for the first time, one from seed and one I bought. But thinking that they were hardy (my neighbour has had one outside for several winters) I left them outside and lost them both.

However by chance I bought another one today - cost me all of 85p! Small but in flower.

 

Oh, Peter, I thought I sent you some 'Big Pink' seeds ... no? Shall I send you some this year as they are hardy? Please let me know. It is the only Hibiscus I get seed from probably because it's deciduous.

Peter, go onto UKEG thread of these .. Steven from Germany has a red one ... I have cheekily asked for seed ....

 

At long last my double peach 'Peach Blow' has decided to start blooming but with much smaller blooms than normal ... but I'm not complaining as she is such a beauty ...

 

Vicky - you must think me very rude, not replying to your post of 26 July. But I have only just seen it. I do apologise.

You have never sent me any Hibiscus seed - but I would love some of your big pink please. Thats very kind of you. I grew some Hibiscus from seed last year, and knowing that my neighbour has one that had overwintered outside for several years, I foolisly left mine outside - big mistake.

I recently bought a couple of very small unnamed Hibiscus (presumably hybrids) in a garden centre. They are quite delightful. The plants are currently so small that they have only one flower at a time which is almost as big as the whole plant itself - though not that big in absolute terms.


This tempted me to read a book on Hibiscus by Jacqueline Walker. I forget things as fast as I read them - but I still feel better if I feel that at one point I knew more about the subject. :D One that took my fancy is H. schizopetalus - pictured above.


I read your thread on UKEG and really enjoyed it. I hadn't realised how many lovely Hibiscus you had. One that caught my eye was your Malvaviscus penduliflorus pictured above (I hope you don't mind me making a link to the UKEG picture) - its the nearly Hibiscus that never fully opens. I had read about it in the book and was delighted to see a real one.

 

Hello Peter. I would never classify you as a rude person ... sometimes we just miss certain posts or see them and think we will answer later but forget:o ....

I have some Big Pink seeds for you. Without searching around, did you ever get seeds for the Datura metel 'Blackcurrant Swirl'? I shall get something off to you in the week.

I too would love to have H schizopetalus ... Cassie from UKEG said she grew these in the Middle East.

No, I don't mind at all you copying over my Malvaviscus penduliflorus. It is slightly straggly so I must give it a severe pruning. I have seen some lovely specimens here trained as small trees .. I live in hope ...

 

Many thanks Victoria - I would really love some big pink seeds. Yes I heve had some of your (or Anne's) Datura seeds - thank you. As I am growing several Datura at the moment, I think I should be OK for seed.

Curiously my Datura aren't looking that healthy - I don't know what I have been doing wrong. But, by contrast, my Brugmansias from seed this year are doing really well. I have got loads of flower buds forming, and already had three flowers.