Is this a tropical? I have my first bloom today and many, many buds. This is a two year old plant.
Confederate Rose
Here's the buds just in top of the tree. It is really covered with buds. Did I say it is covered with buds?
Nice plant Jim. I have one up here in the frigid Midwest, but it is a first year plant and no signs of buds yet. I'd sure be happy to see it bloom though.
Thanks, This one opens pink and then the next day is a dark pink. I have another that I posted a picture of last year that opens white and then turns pink. It hasn't progressed as this one has. It has leaves but never got big. I had a brug there once and had to move it also. When I dug it there was an underground stream of water and the water was to much on the roots. I thought it would do well there but I guess I better quit thinking.
The others open white and turn pink and then to dark pink by evening. This one,Jim, is a pretty pink! I remember your pic last year. It must have grown quite tall.
John, Your flower looks more like one of our subtropical hardy hibiscus.. it blooms from late spring to freeze... correct?
Georgiaredclay has the hibiscus mutabulis (confederate rose) and although it will throw rare blooms throughout the summer.. this plant doesn't get to its full beauty till the end of summer first part of fall when the bush is covered in different color-phase blooms.
MzMunchken, I thought perhaps there were different varieties of the confederate rose and that I had a single variety. However, this article, http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/southerngarden/hibiscus.html states unequivocally that the confederate rose is a double bloom.
All this while I thought I had a confederate rose when in reality it is something else. Can someone tell me what this is? http://www.pbase.com/image/32286394
I bought two more of this one this year for $5 a piece. I found them at two local nurseries. The white one I rooted from a cutting. I'll be glad to send cutting at the end of the season of the pink one if any one wants one.
Hi Dinu, yes it grew a lot this year and I saw one at one of the nurseries that had to be 30' tall. I guess they rooted cuttings off the tree when they cut it back.
I have both the single white/turns pink, the double white/turns pink and the triple pink/turns hot pink and the single hot pink.. the double and the triple are about 15 ft tall and are only 2 years old.
There is this variety. The one I put in. Still a mutabilis. It's by Monrovia called Rubrus. It is a deciduous shrub in zone 4 evergreen past 8 or 9.
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Confederate rose or Hibiscus mutabilis is not a tropical. But very pretty none the less. Hardy to zone 5
It's more like a hardy hibiscus, a good plant for someone who likes tropical hibiscus
Here in zone 9a the Confederate Rose doesn't start blooming until the first part of October. Mine was still blooming at Christmas time last year. It did not die back, and is now about 12 ft tall. They start very easily from seed or cuttings. I started this one from seed last spring.
mine surprised me with blooms in June and july...now i wont get any till late Sept or Oct
Emh, I had blooms in June and July too. I have been watching for more buds, but none yet. I guess I got too impatient.
Jim, that is a gorgeous color! I have the white turns pink kind. I wish our nurseries around here carried them.
Cala
I have them all will root some and offer them later.....
Susie I'll check and see if I can round you up one.
The first blooms of the season will open on mine today,it opens cotton candy pink and turns slightly darker as the day goes on. The plant that my grandmother has opens white and turns pink though not all of them turn,some just stay white.
These make really huge plants here in South Carolina,up to 12-13 feet tall or more with ane equally as wide spread
They are very cold hardy here in zone 8a . If the winter is not too cold most of the wood will sprout again in the spring,but if it gets too cold most of it will die back with only a few of the old sticks sprouting in the spring,but it seems to triple in size every year from new growth below ground.
For anyone who doesn't or has never grown one of these you really should try one once even if it isn't cold hardy for you you can always take cuttings becasue they root very easily.
None of these pictures do the bloom justice,you just have to see one to believe how large and pretty they actually are.
I was wondering if someone might be able to give me a bit of info. A friend of mine has a Confederate Rose tree, and it has this black stuff on the leaves, which I'm assuming is a fungus of some sort? I recommended they go to a certain store in town that would be able to tell them which fungicide to use on it. Does anyone know the name of this fungus, or what this is? I would just like to put a name to it. Thanks so much for the help.
Mine is about six foot tall and not a sign of a bud, so I'm thinking this plant doesn't have enough time to bloom in Iowa. I really wanted to see it do it's thing.
Susie, I can cut mine back and send you the roots if you want it.
They're supossed to be very prone to insect and desease. I had mine growing in a pot, planted in the ground, it rained alot, seemed like it was rotting from the soil line, I staked it and it lost all it's leaves. I was too lazy to dig it up and I'm glad I was b/c it came back and looks better than ever! I don't even need to stake it anymore!
Grayse2, some hibiscus are very sensitive to chemicals. Treat only a small area at a time just incase.
grayse2:
The black leaves could possibly be caused by sooty mold.
Here's some informaqtion on that:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3046.html
Thank you, everyone, for the info. I will let my friends' know what y'all said. Appreciate the help.