The hibiscus are in bloom!
There are so many different varieties of this flowering plant. In Texas, we had a couple near our living room window. They would die every fall and grow back up from the ground every summer, producing enormous red-orange blooms. Here at Echowood, we have four “trees” of hibiscus growing beside our garage. They continue growing off the old wood, rather than having to start from scratch each year. Three of them have pink flowers, one has white.
(Please pardon the trash cans in the background! The only open blooms were too high for me to get with just point and click. I had to grab a branch and pull it down to eye level, and the only one I could reach even for that was facing the wrong direction!)
Here is one that was open yesterday afternoon, but now is closed up. You can see the tightly closed buds of flowers that have yet to display their beauty.
Just so you know to what lengths I will go in order to share these photos with you: I was positively attacked by mosquitoes as I stood taking these shots. I felt like I was back in northern Minnesota! (And now I shall spend the rest of my joyful Sunday—itching!)
Posted by Lisa on August 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Beautiful Hibiscus! We used to have some in our front yard, but then they got infested with some little white flies. They left ugly, huge, spiderweb-like messes. We ended up just getting rid of the bush. They never did bloom pretty like your. You’ve got a great green thumb!
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