Over-wintering Hibisci!

[Jacqui]

blooms from a Rose of Sharon (Althea)





they can grow tall, as you can see to the right is the top of a van.


from a hardy hibiscus

 

[terryo]

The Rose of Sharon can be brought inside but needs to be near a window that gets a lot of light. I put one in front of the sliding glass doors and it works out well. They grow up through the pavers here as the seeds fall all over the place. Mostly we consider them pretty weeds. They grow very fast too. I also have the hardy red one too. It comes up each year but doesn't turn into a tree like the Rose of Sharon.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

I had no idea they grew wild!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'll try to get a photo up of the different Hibiscus flowers. The ones that always get eaten are the ones with fewer petals. The prettier hybrid varieties aren't as well received.
The red one on the right is the hybrid and these red ones still get eaten over the orange colored ones from the same bush.
The pink/red one on the left, they will come running for.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

I wonder why that is! Possible they taste 'different'?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

You wouldn't figure that a tortoise that eats poo would have such a refined palate?!

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

You wouldn't figure that a tortoise that eats poo would have such a refined palate?!

Oh right, and with what you say, RFs are not to be taken as picky

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Here they are today...

 

[johnsonnboswell]

My RTs & hermann's clearly prefer the darker purplish red rose of sharon flowers to the pale pink ones.

 

[mike taylor]

I keep my hibiscus outside all year . Just cover them on cold nights . Uncover in the morning as long as no freeze is in the forecast . My red foots do the trimming for me . They eat flowers that fall off .