Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS SPRING!!! Next time it might be summer!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
And as a finale--I have a story to tell you----

A week ago--we hot in a slew of big, potted Hibiscus. All jammed up on racks--
and then laid out at the front of the garden center outside the gates,

People were buying them by the arm-loads...but this one Hibiscus sat untouched,
because it had NO flower buds on it at all--just this big, full pot of healthy leaves...
Most of the Hibiscus we got were either red or yellow....so I figured that this had to be yellow--
just from comparing leaves.
I wanted to buy it--but did not that day.

A couple days later--I came in to work--and it was still there. Serendipity!!!
Still sitting there all green--bun now it showed a couple promising buds.
Then I saw a sticker on the pot that said "PINK"...
I HAD TO buy it--it had waited for me...so I did.

Got home--cleaned it up and re-potted it in a bigger pot. Soaked it with Root-starter
fertilizer in a bucket--and set it out on a corner of my driveway.
1--A couple days later it bloomed! Mamma Mia!!! SO gorgeous! I was lucky to get it.

2-- Some beauties still waiting to be planted....I keep buying them--and, they sit
and wait--patiently--for the day they will get a permanent home...

More in a couple days--things are beginning to "pop" all right....
Still have all my other DL's to go---and my newly planted flowers.....
G.

Gita