Big Purple Flower - PaD 7/14/07
posted by Douglas at 9:31 AM
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
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5 Comments:
Hi, Not sure how I stumbled onto your blog, but I enjoyed the browse.
That flower looks like a Hibiscus.
That is clearly a hardy hibiscus. I grow them in my garden - well one variety anyway "Plum Crazy". I love them and they always get comments as you can understand!
That one is a beauty.
Yes, most definately a hibiscus. And you call yourself a gardener? Douglas, Douglas, Douglas...
In my own defense, and you can't see the scale in the photo, these flowers were the size of dinner plates, 10+ inches across. I am used to the smaller varieties we have here. (SMILE)
These beauties grow all the way up to zone five. They are late to come up, and early to die back - but those huge and exotic flowers are so worth it!
Also they are suspectable to cutworm attacks. Such tender things.
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