brugie I am so glad you asked about that I am wondering also??????
Comeon bug spring isn't that far away!!!!!!
potemup that one is gorgeous!!!! I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like that, but I feel that way everytime I look at this thread!!!!!
I do finally have a few hardy ones blooming so I am enjoying those.
Hibiscus cultivars to die for...
I was so busy enjoying this one that I almost forgot to take a picture. It was begining to fade in this picture, but Gabriel was still beautiful.
This one is in bloom today.No name that I know of...small flowers but nice veins!
Very pretty Kyle. Is that a Kong behind her to the right?
Shirley, nope just a regular type.if you look just under the Hib flower..that long stem is a brug leaf stem..that shows how small the flower on this one is! :-)
Oh yes, it is small. Thanks.
Bloomed yesterday. Irene Collins
Edited to say Dupont has ID'd this to be "Cameo". The order was for "Ooh La La" so I get to keep this beauty and they are sending the one I ordered!
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Eclipse,
Your hibiscus are beautiful. I assume the are all tropicals. IF so do you grow them in pots or mulch them for the winter?
Daisy
Daisy, they are all tropical, I bring them indoors in Oct. and keep them in the basement for winter.
Thanks. I have mine all in the ground. I have to protect them in the winter. They die back to the ground every year and this is disapointing. Last winter I pulled up one each Cooperii and Snow Queen and put them in the shade house for the winter...they still went dormant. I kept the house just above freezing.
Bleeding Heart
Blue Mist
Cooperii (Multicolored variegated leaves, single red bloom)
Double Houla Girl
El Capitolio aka Chinese Lantern Type Peach
El Capitolio aka Chinese Lantern Type Red
Peach, fully double flower with no name
Lavender Chiffon
Mohoi Variegata
Snow Fire
Snow Queen
Sun Showers
General Corteges
Schizopetula
Do yours go dormant in the basement?
Thanks,
Daisy
Daisy, they stop growing for the most part..sometimes they bloom a few flowers..my goal is just to keep them alive over winter till spring.I keep them about 60F and low light most of the time.
Twinlakes - your photo looks like Cameo. Here is my 'Ooh La La.' Where did you get yours from?
I just found this thread and I love all the beautiful pictures you have posted.
Eclipse, I ordered Morning Glory myself but they were all sold out by the time I made my order. There's always next year. I love your pictures of Gil Whitton and sunshowers.
Brugie, Erica Nichole is as sweet looking as her name.
I would love to share a couple of mine with you. Here is Edna bogart I bought from Logee's instead.
Cloud Nine just bloomed for the first time today,
I had to fight to keep Carolina Breeze alive during the past winter but somehow it made it.
Last but not least is this one I bought recently and I love the tropical look of Gold Dust
P.S.
I hope someone can help me with a question that has me baffled. Is it very common to have a hibiscus that blooms a coupld of different flowers on the same plant? I have one of the dark orange with red center and it sometimes has blooms of another that I also have which is pink with and orangey yellow outer edging.
Dott
OK
I've had it
Where do I get awesome Hibiscus?
I am way rooting challenged
I've killed every cutting I've traded for
and NO WHERE around here do they have those multi colered ones
(and some of you are buying them in the grocery stores...not fair I tell ya)
AlI I have found is plain pink,red yellow,peach.......
Boring......
I need some place thats not way expensive
DH will kill me if I spend much more money........
I kept hoping someone would do a co-op........
no luck
so tell me where to go
who do I call???
Raspberry Swirl
Whirl Wind - small flower
Key Lime Pie
Jimmie John - I think
Oh my gosh, those are all gorgeous. That Raspberry Swirl is beautiful. I think next spring someone should definitely do a co-op.
Dot, where did you find your Carolina Breeze..I need one! :-) I lost mine two years ago,
Eclipse,
At a loval nursery. Hubby took me there to pick one out for Mother's day and I brought home 3 different ones. I amost lost it over the winter and I would have been so upset because that same nursery didn't get it back in this year. It's not the best that it could be but it's still here. It won't be much longer here before I will take the couple of cuttings I can get from it before having to bring it back inside for the long winter. Email me Eclipse, and I should be able to root some and I would be happy to share an extra.
Dott
I was hoping to find out where bugfreak had gotten his liners from.
I don't know about anybody else, but if I do a coop I would rather do liners than to do it from somewhere that will cost us a lot more.
Especially if we do it in the spring, I think liners would be great, we can get a lot more bang for our bucks that way!
I was hoping to find out where bugfreak had gotten his liners from.
I don't know about anybody else, but if I do a coop I would rather do liners than to do it from somewhere that will cost us a lot more.
Especially if we do it in the spring, I think liners would be great, we can get a lot more bang for our bucks that way!
Anyone that is going to do cuttings to root, I would love to see if I can come up with anything to trade for them.
I am also trying to figure out the best way to root both tropicals and hardy from cuttings, any advice would be appreciated.
I owe bugfreak a hibiscus that has been in the starter soil for all most 2 months and the dumb thing is growing leaves that I keep taking off, but it only has one little tiny pathetic looking root!
I just did some more cuttings and put them in water cause I had read that was a better way of doing them, so thought I would give that a try too. I am feeling so guilty about not being able to get these out to him, that I may have to dig up my 8 foot plant soon and send the whole thing!!!!
He was kind enough to send me some things I really wanted and its driving me nuts that I can't get my end taken care of.
Any Any advice would be appreciated!!! I am willing to try most anything at this point!!!!!
Aknapp,
REALLY! Don't worry to much over this. I have all the patience in the world with this and have had many things to look after lately. Many things to keep me busy. The plants that I sent you NEEDED your care so don't feel bad about me having sent them to you. If your cutting doesn't root, then it doesn't root and I would NOT expect you to send me your mother plant. I can always wait until we do a co-op. If you can't root your cutting I would settle for a liner from one from the co-op. I'm sure there will be many to chose from.
I have rooted in a number of ways and they all seem to be effective to some degree. I have yet to determin which is more effective though. I used to be so intimidated by the thought of rooting a hibiscus. Especially the tropical ones. I have read that bottom heat helps. I tend to have the best luck with smallish cuttings but I'm now starting to wonder if it's just because was less afraid to try smallish cuttings. I thought green wood was my best option but lately I've tried hard wood cuttings with just as much luck in good results. I only have two different tropical hibiscus now but I've tried different methods for rooting on both.
I found some growing in a neighbors driveway and took cuttings when the house was on the market. I took these cuttings and put them in a mixture of pearlite and peat. These were hard wood cuttings and they seem to be doing okay. This was months ago and they are still growing. I've checked them for roots and they are developing roots. I event went as far as airlayering a whole bunch on one of my original plants to test the waters in rooting. Talk about a pain in the neck, literally. Out of 23 airlayer attempts on one plant I had ONE airlayering take root. That will be the last time I try that. I'm sure the problem was probably in my method or lack of patience. When you take cuttings, you just have to make sure that your cut is through a leaf node. I have also read that you can take cuttings on hard wood and place them in a pot with nothing but pearlite and apply rooting hormone. Then you stick this pot in a tray of water about 2 inches deep. Keep the holes of the pot submerged in water and the pearlite will wick the water up to the cuttings. All cuttings should be kept out of direct sunlight during the rooting process.
I have also used rooting cubes. Rooting cubes were actually my first and prefered method until recently. I was so caught up on what worked for me that I wasn't giving any other method a chance or even a though. Lately I've tried other methods that have worked (as explained above). So as it stands, I'm more willing to try different things.
BTW
Sorry about not having posted where I got my liners from. I thought I had but I'm actually glad that I haven't posted it. Let me explain; I've sent the lady payment over a week ago. I've e-mail her multiple times and she hasn't responded. She told me I would have these last week and nothing as of yet. I'm sure she's just backed up but as soon as I get mine (in good condition) I'll post her info here or I'll give it to you now if you insist. Either way is fine. I just hate to recommend anyone that I haven't done business with or completed a transaction with. Especially since it's still up in the air. She was recommended by someone else here on DG.
Our main company just picked up a new supplier out of central Florida. We don't have them set up in the system yet, but she came by today and dropped off some blooms, as well as an image CD. I'll attach some of the more unusual ones. In total, they have about 60 varieties, of which there's 35 currently available. She hopes to be up to more than 100.
They are all own root, and not grafted.
Gator Pride
This message was edited Aug 30, 2004 3:25 PM
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