Hibiscus: My first blooms for tropical hybrids! CT 6/21/10, 1 by blupit007

blupit007 wrote:
I'm totally freaking out! This Saffron is the size of my head! I talked from Cindy, who I got it from, and she said that it is rare, but this yellow color I got from Saffron is because it was making buds in the box that it was in for 8 days. So I took a bunch of photos of it! I think the next round of blooms will be true, but for now its really cool!

I like the idea of vivid colors with lower temps, because living in CT, my house is at 60-65 in the winter. I might get some grow lights for all of them. And I plan on trying my hand at cuttings and cross pollinating. (we shall see how successful I am)...

Peg, Hidden Valley is absolutely great! They have really nice plants, and they held them an extra week because they were not ready. They take pride in their product, you can tell by the plants I got. I only got the 6" pots because I wanted blooms by July 17th, my wedding. I plan on having them there. Its a luau! I got the 2 gallon Bella du Jour, cause that's the only size they had it in, and I couldn't live without it. But the 4" are probably just as beautiful, you just might have to wait a month for the blooms. (that's what they say)

Thanks for all the nice comments, makes this even more fun! Not only am I enjoying them, you are too, and that makes me happy!!
Keep an eye out, I will post more!

Later,
Kristen