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GreenJay said:
When ours start getting out of hand around the pond during growing season, we snap the stalks off at the base to thin them out. You can stick those stalks in the ground or a pot and they'll root most of the time.
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That's good to know! I don't actually have any of these, but I should get some.
 
Do either of you have a cranberry hibiscus? It's a perennial supposedly in zones 10 and 11. I do have one in the ground, though and the 28 degrees we had the other night didn't bother it, and it did get my tropical hibiscus.

It's a beautiful plant, but it's also the kind you use to make tea from the flowers. I love the flowers in tea and I usually buy them in bulk dried, but my mom bought a plant from a local market this year and rooted me a piece. From it, I've rooted 2 more pieces. It gets kind of tall and scraggly and doesn't branch out like tropical hibiscus, so I keep it pruned to about 2 feet tall, then plant the new starts with it to make it more shrub-like. The leaves are edible too, and so pretty in a salad. Anyway, I highly recommend them, if you don't have them. They're really pretty, and useful too!
 
AnneGirlGG said:
Do either of you have a cranberry hibiscus? It's a perennial supposedly in zones 10 and 11. I do have one in the ground, though and the 28 degrees we had the other night didn't bother it, and it did get my tropical hibiscus.

It's a beautiful plant, but it's also the kind you use to make tea from the flowers. I love the flowers in tea and I usually buy them in bulk dried, but my mom bought a plant from a local market this year and rooted me a piece. From it, I've rooted 2 more pieces. It gets kind of tall and scraggly and doesn't branch out like tropical hibiscus, so I keep it pruned to about 2 feet tall, then plant the new starts with it to make it more shrub-like. The leaves are edible too, and so pretty in a salad. Anyway, I highly recommend them, if you don't have them. They're really pretty, and useful too!
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oh wow that sounds awesome but no i dont have any
 
AnneGirlGG said:
Do either of you have a cranberry hibiscus? It's a perennial supposedly in zones 10 and 11. I do have one in the ground, though and the 28 degrees we had the other night didn't bother it, and it did get my tropical hibiscus.

It's a beautiful plant, but it's also the kind you use to make tea from the flowers. I love the flowers in tea and I usually buy them in bulk dried, but my mom bought a plant from a local market this year and rooted me a piece. From it, I've rooted 2 more pieces. It gets kind of tall and scraggly and doesn't branch out like tropical hibiscus, so I keep it pruned to about 2 feet tall, then plant the new starts with it to make it more shrub-like. The leaves are edible too, and so pretty in a salad. Anyway, I highly recommend them, if you don't have them. They're really pretty, and useful too!
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Very pretty!
I've had several hibiscus over the years, tropical and hardy, but not that one. Think I may have seen it at area nurseries tho. I don't usually drink herbal teas (I drink go-go juice ☕ all day LoL) but I have had the hibiscus tea.

Take some cuttings off the tropicals and root over winter inside for backup plants just in case, never too many plants! 🤣
 
GreenJay said:
Very pretty!
I've had several hibiscus over the years, tropical and hardy, but not that one. Think I may have seen it at area nurseries tho. I don't usually drink herbal teas (I drink go-go juice ☕ all day LoL) but I have had the hibiscus tea.

Take some cuttings off the tropicals and root over winter inside for backup plants just in case, never too many plants! 🤣
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Lol that sounds like my dad. He drank coffee all day, every day. I drink one cup in the morning and one in the evening. It's a habit my husband and I have. We always drink a cup together when he gets home from work. Other than that, I drink mostly water and some herbal tea here and there.

Oh yes, cuttings are my friends. 😆 I always have something growing in water that eventually finds its way to a pot or the ground.
 

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