Hibiscus rosa-sinensis "Trelawney Green"
31st August 2006
I'm a secret Hibiscus lover, but I don't really like the toilet-cleaner lilac of H.syriacus, for all its hardiness, so I yearn for H.rosa-sinensis!
Some of the forms are almost hardy, and might just prosper in a cold glasshouse, but many of the modern American hybrids, with flowers like the expansion of a new multicoloured universe,
are not. This one tried hard, but eventually expired.
29th October 2005
18th October 2005