Hibiscus: new here, 1 by carlo05

carlo05 wrote:
Dag Jori:
Although we live in cold european countries they are the easier ones where to find hybrid hibiscus (rosa-sinensis). You live nearer than me from the most known nursery in Europe (http://www.kwekerijgommer.com). Indeed, Gommer started to sell hibiscus from the Tahitian series this month although the majority were sold in just minutes.
Here, in the other part of the border, you can find hibiscus in Exotica nursery (http://www.plantencentrumexotica.com). I would recommend you to buy them in the nursery as Exotica is well known sending plants wrong labelled.
Since we bought a house with garden two years ago (before we were living in a rented appartment) I have the hibiscus planted into the ground, without pots, from mid April to beginning of October. They grow a lot with this method although they start severe pruned as the Winter defoliates them and rot some. In October I pot all of them and move them indoors.
The newbiscus is no more than a commercial name for a variety of H. moscheutos. I have some planted in the garden but just one survived the last and hard winter we had.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, the ones mainly covered in this forum, do not come true from seeds ... and that is the nice part of this game. The bloom of a seedling can be similar to a parent, if it is dominant, but also very different and seeds from the same seedpod can give blooms in different tones and sizes.
I do not have success with hybridizing. Most crosses I make take but later the pod drop or it is empty.

Tot ziens.

Carlos