A funny thing or two about Hibiscus

So I moved in early november, and by that time the terrain on the other side of the street was clean, some grass growing here and there. A month later the grass became tall. Then, having a walk there to see what kind of plants were growing there, what wasn´t my surprise when I saw a hibiscus. A volunteer hibiscus! It was amazing, I didn´t know H. rosa-sinenis would grow here without any help.

So I took a cutting right away. I took 2 cuttings actually, each having 3 mature leaves and no flower buds. It was 3 months ago. This week I checked out them and noticed a flower growing on one of them. And then it opened today. The flower was quite small compared to the original plant. It made me think if it is possible to keep a normal Hibiscus short and make them produce tiny flowers that would be small copies of huge ones.

Here are the pictures. The fist one is a shot of the original flower.

Here is my 3 months old cutting of that plant.

And here are the original plant, to the right, and my cutting to the left. Notice the different sizes of these flowers.

Sure. You get volunteer hibiscus, I get volunteer weeds. ;)

Beautiful!

Yours' is just darling. Looks like "Painted Lady". WTG......

this i what i grow in cincinnati looks like hibicous but its a mallow I've only seen 4 colors tho red white yellow and burgundy

jerryhildebrand, yours look like a red dinner plate!

I think it looks like a red dinner plate to. Wow....it's huge the blooms.

Mono luv the color on yours.
:) Donna

Here's an old one. Never see it advertised anymore.

Turn of the Century

It's purrrrty! I've seen seeds sold on ebay. I think that's where I got mine.
:) Donna