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hibiscus, unbrella plant

My umbrella plant (that hard to spell sheffelara thing) was five long sticks
with tufts of leaves at the top.  So I took the longest, ugliest stick and
cut if off at the ground.  Two leafy sticks sprouted in from the stump.
Before I started cutting off the other sticks, we moved.  The plant gets
more light now, and the other sticks got new leaves all the way up and down
them.  The moral of the story is:  if I can't kill it, no one can.  Good
luck Tom!

Two of my friends have hibiscus plants that winter inside, summer outside.
They both prune their plants harshly in the fall.  More than half gets
hacked off, and both plants are covered with blossoms in the summer. My
friend does not do well with most plants, and I doubt there's a system to
her pruning - it just has to fit into its spot in the living room.
I recently bought a Rose-of-Sharon (hardy hibiscus) and was told to get an
enemy to prune it for me.  I was told they bloom on new growth, so prune it
severly.

        Heather
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