do you love having a tropical hibiscus each summer but you hate the fact that
you have to buy one every year well maybe you need to consider getting
a perennial hibiscus stay tuned and i'll tell you everything
you need to know
hey friends welcome to gardening with creekside it is jenny and today i am
going to tell you about a fantastic shrub that we have
grown for years here at our house and at the nursery i
absolutely love it it is a perennial hibiscus this
gorgeous beauty is a perennial hibiscus this is cranberry crush
it is from proven winters it is part of their summerific
series of perennial hibiscus i don't know if people know that there
are perennial hibiscus out there but they are and
isn't she gorgeous absolutely beautiful so imagine that you only have to buy
your hibiscus once instead of every single season i
know that tropical hibiscus are very popular
people love to put them around their pools and just different areas of their
house to give them that great summertime feel
i love perennial hibiscus because they are so easy
and low maintenance now there are tons of different varieties
different colors different sizes so i'm going to give you just a general
overview of perennial hibiscus again like i said this is cranberry crush
she is a beautiful deep rich massive blooms on them these would be
considered the dinner plate size blooms now what's really interesting
about the hibiscus blooms is that they only last for one day we
are filming this in the late evening and so a lot of the
blooms that were in all their glory today are
beginning to close and be at the end of their life cycle
and then we have new buds that by tomorrow morning will
be open and be full so i have personally have
found that the perennial hibiscus are really full and
gorgeous in the morning and throughout the day
towards the end of the evening they start to close up perennial
hibiscus generally are hardy in zones four through nine so
they're extremely cold tolerant and heat tolerant something that you
need to know though about the hibiscus is that they love it hot it's probably
not a big surprise there but they do love it hot so they will be like one of
the absolute last things to come up in your garden
in fact depending on where you live in the country
will kind of determine what time of year they come up
here in north carolina for us obviously we're a little bit warmer than say our
friends in michigan or oregon or washington state
um they come up typically sometime in may and once they actually
do come up they are rapid growers it is
nothing for them to grow at least an inch a day the different hibiscus will
be a different size so cranberry crush is right around that
four foot mark typically they can be wider than they
are tall but as you see behind me this was an older variety this is cherry
cheesecake from proven winners from a couple of years ago and she's taller
than she is wide so once you find your perennial hibiscus
that you love just make sure that she will
fit in the space that you have and that she is the color
that you want sun requirements they have to have
a minimum of four to five hours of sun and then they can get all the way up to
all day sun these ones that we have here are
underneath our big giant crape myrtles so the sun will come
up behind me in the east and sets in front of me
in the west so they get some morning sun early direct sun then filtered during
the midday and then the afternoon they get direct sun again
but as a total they get at least five to six
hours of sun therefore they put on their gorgeous blooms
but i hope you have found this a little bit informative that we have shown you
some different varieties giving you a little different
idea of something that you can add to your garden
we all love perennials when they come back year after year and they give us
these massive gorgeous blooms for months on end
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