Tropical Hibiscus 'Rum Runner'

I absolutely agree with the comment left on Feb 24, 2010 by ExoticHibiscus. The hybridizer it is attributed to did not develop Rum Runner...Read More. Barry Schlueter was a personal friend of mine and I know this one was not his. The first picture in the gallery is actually Rum Runner.

The picture show is Erin Rachael by Curt Sinclair and Rumrunner was hybridized by Dale and Cindi Armstrong of St. Petersburg, FL. and not Barry.

I am a beginner gardener and my first two Hibiscus did not make it due to my negligence during the winter but I recently purchased a new ...Read Moreone and thus far I am enjoying the blooms. I had it in the sun room but I 've placed it on our patio. What puzzles me is why does the leaves turn yellow? What do I need to do take care of my Hibiscus, I don't want to lose another one. Thanks for any help.

These have a very beautiful flower! My husband and I bought both of ours at the local HD for around $16 and they were in 1 gallon contai...Read Morener pots. We left the first one we bought out in it's pot in the backyard with NO watering (other than rain) and no fertilizing for at least a month. It kept flowering for a whiel, but as you can imagine, it began losing it's leaves. I walked out one day while we were preparing to landscape our backyard and noticed our forgotten beauty so I planted it quickly in a bed, mulched it and have been fertilizing it weekly with a foliar fertilizer and I also used a granular fertilizer when I planted it. It is looking MUCH better but it's still not as full as i'd like for it to be. By next year it will be though. We just put this one through too much!!

The second one was immediately planted in a mulched bed upon purchase, and it has done quite well. It hasn't grown much vertically yet, but it keeps putting out new blooms and looks amazing! I've noticed that the blooms are a pinkish red with purple undertones in the mornings, and as the day wears on, if the sun's out completely, the blooms wll change to a magenta pink throat surrounded by a white middle and edged in yellow. It's very pretty and incredibly neat to have an ever-changing exotic plant bloom!

These are very, very lovely ... my reason for the neutral rating is because of the lack of vertical growth as compared to my other hibiscus that were planted at the same time.