Garden Pic Wednesday: Red & Pink Hibiscus!
We had a nice, much needed little thunder shower yesterday! I recently replanted a mix variety of lettuce seeds in a pot of rich garden soil that I put near the front door in the strawberry bed. Also a short row of radish seed. The strawberries don't like the end of the bed near my front door, so I use it as an auxiliary garden. I didn't find the lettuce seed performed that well in the veggie bed. Not sure why. Maybe the sun is too intense. But I have gotten good performance from it in a pot--usually one that's more shaded. That's a trick about gardening in Florida--things that like full sun further north, needed partial shade here. Today's Garden Pics are my gorgeous Hardy Hibiscus! This is not the tropical form, which is a shrub, but the tall upright variety that dies back in winter and returns from root every spring. They average 4 to 5 feet tall and run in a variety of shades from light pink to deep burgundy red, plus white and I believe a ...