Re: hibuscus questions

Elle,
Any chance of a picture? (You can send it to me provately if the List won't
accept attachments). What you have is not a tropical hibiscus (H.
rosa-sinensis), but a hardy one (several species). But can't tell which
without a picture, or at least a more detailed description. 

Tom???

Gerry

At 04:32 PM 8/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have lived in my Willamette Valley Or Zone 8 old house for 25 years. 
>There is a tree outside the bathroom on the north side of the house that
>has yellow blooms in the spring and purple blooms right now.
>I never knew what it was till my daughter, who just returned from Maui,
>Hawai'i said "Mom - it's a hibiscus"  In Oregon?  What a shocker to me!
>This tree is higher than the roof of my 2 story house, has had little
>trimming except when it has become too sprawly and never fed specific
>food.  It is in a garden area that I mulch and compost yearly, which
>grows ferns, hosta and bleeding heart like mad.
>I then realized that the pink bush which I have hacked down down the
>same side of the house, and which has regrown, is also a hibiscus.
>I know nothing about this tropical plant, except that it ain't tropical
>in Oregon!
>Any ideas?
>elle in oregon
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