Hibiscus

These can be separated into 2 categories, evergreen and deciduous. 

The evergreen varieties are fantastic house plants if you live in the UK but are super outdoor shrubs if you border the Mediterranean.  They are then plentiful all the way to southern India.

Some lose their leaves in the winter and the deciduous varieties are more for the northern hemisphere as by losing their leaves they are able to withstand much colder weather over the winter months.The colour range the flowers  in the evergreen group is very wide in both plain and bi-coloured petals.

The evergreen varieties are perfectly capable of flowering in a semi-shaded environment as the heat is more of a guarantee the further south you go.  The soil they thrive in is usually poor in terms of nutrient hold, the further south you go too.

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The deciduous varieties require the hottest, sunniest part of the garden as the sun levels are more unpredictable the further north you go.

Good drainage is essential for those of you who are planting the deciduous ones outside in the normal UK garden, maybe mix in plenty of grit and gravel and in heavier soils it is even more essential to do this.

The deciduous ones stay void of leaves from mid autumn through to late spring , so water logging is the main issue for young plants in their first three years in your garden. Nowadays there is a wider range of colours in the deciduous group too, from Hibiscus Hamabo which is red and white through to the old favourite Hibiscus Bluebird with its summer blue flowers... Fab!

The Hibiscus really makes up for its long period of dormancy when you see it flower for long parts of the summer.  Exotic looking too!

If your garden does not have at least one Hibiscus, you should think carefully about adding it to your collection.  Just remember, it can provide good summer interest when many of your other shrubs have finished and it is mostly left up to herbaceous to proffer the colour.
Definitely worth adding to an area where the colour stops in June and remember the sun on it all day long, or certainly all afternoon sun for the flowering to do well.

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