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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Monday, August 23, 2010

{3 Hibiscus Varieties 'KONA' - 'CONFEDERATE ROSE' and a RED variegated}



In-between my silver Giovanni Raspini gifts, I love to show you what's blooming in our garden. 
First let me introduce you to this exotic beauty: Hibiscus 'KONA' which is available from Logee's in Connecticut as Hibiscus 'Kona' (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis hybrid). We have lots of special plants from them, just check them out.


Bring a touch of the tropics into your life with this exotic cultivar from Logee's. Large, rich fully double blossoms, resembling puffy crepe paper, adorn this vigorous grower.


This one shows a visiting insect...


This is where the two planters with the Kona hibiscus are; behind our gazebo on the small stone patio.


To the left of the gazebo, facing the back of our house.


Here is another planter with a variegated leaf Hibiscus in a flamboyant Red.
We did bring a cutting home from the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and voilà:


Pieter's hand for comparison, though it is by far not as large as the Kona variety.


It was on Friday, September 5, of 1997 that we stayed at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We had checked in early at 2:00 PM and were inside in time for the heavy weather in relation to Hurricane Erica near Puerto Rico. On Saturday morning at 4:00 AM we sat in our beds with the pillows propped up and the special curtains (triple!) closed to keep the noise of the raging winds with heavy rain out of earshot. We watched the funeral of Princess Diana... (she died on August 31). A day we never will forget. Our vacation was not planned at the right moment and being high in the tower with a huge balcony on two sides, did not do us any good!
But their gardens were lush and the hibiscus cutting flourished at our home; that made up for the heavy weather...


In our adjacent wood garden we also have since one decade this Hibiscus mutabilis 'Plena' also called: Confederate Rose. We obtained this from  Woodlanders in South Carolina. Another great nursery that has a huge variety and is in business for a very long period already.


This photo is from October 31, 2000. They are not yet blooming but I wanted to show it today.
Hibiscus mutabilis 'Plena' is a wonderful big mulit-stem deciduous shrub with leaves like a cotton plant and large double peony-like showy flowers in the fall that open white and change to pink as the day goes on. Freezes back in winter but does re-sprout here in the south.


Hibiscus mutabilis 'Plena'

10 comments:

  1. Hi Mariette, Your hibiscus are gorgeous, a very nice variety, the red single is the kind we had when I was growing up in Calif. Your gazebo is gorgeous... nice and big!
    Thanks so much for the shout out, mine is in a shadey back corner of the garden, the one in the front starting blooming right before a hot spell and got toasted!
    Bella

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  2. Wauwh! Jullie tuin ontvangt veel liefde en verzorging zo te zien. Fijne dag! Groetjes Ingrid

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  3. Dear Mariette!!!

    What lovely blooms!!! I DO like Hibiscus!!! And it is nice to see a bit of colour! (Also enjoyed the view of your garden....it is LOVELY!!! SO calm!) - I used to have them in France, just in window boxes!

    Thank you for your lovely comment - yes, CRUMBS is doing fine! She is asleep on my lap as I am writing this....!!! ANd I will do another post on her soon, jsut thought I cannot mention her EVERY time :)....

    Have a great day!!! (keeping it extra short, trying to catch up with everyone....:))


    Lots of love

    Nicolax

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  4. Geweldig al die variëteiten hibiscus!! Prachtplaatjes zijn het, echt genieten!
    Bisous uit Versailles, Chantal

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  5. Hé? Heb iknet een heel berichtje getypt en opeens is het verdwenen?? Nou ja, dan nog maar een keertje! Wat een geweldige variëteiten Hibiscus laat je ons zien, het zijn prachtplaatjes! Genieten is dat!
    Bisous uit Versailles, Chantal

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  6. Hallo liebe Mariette,

    endlich komme ich wieder dazu ein wenig zu kommentieren und ich kann nur sagen ... WOW!!!
    Diese Hibiscusblüten sind einfach nur traumhaft schön. Ich kann mich gar nicht satt sehen daran :o)

    Wünsch dir noch eine schöne Restwoche und schick viele liebe Grüße ... Sonja

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  7. Hla Marietta, your articles as always beautiful and the flowers, I wish to comment So here in puertorico, this plant is commonly known by the name of poppy, comes in a variety increhible, are beautiful. Here are widely cultivated. Rose marie greetings THE NAME OF FLOWER IS AMAPOLA .

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  8. Love your Confederate roses, Mariette. Your gazebo is so lovely - I imagine myself sitting there having a cup of tea and stroopwafels with you! Next life perhaps?

    Hugs and blessings, dearest friend. 💐

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    1. Dearest Veronica,
      Thank you and yes, wish we could sit there together and no doubt—we would have a lot to share from places and countries that we both know and love.
      Who knows—next life as everything does have a reason!
      Big hugs,
      Mariette

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  9. Kona pink hibiscus have seeds to purchase thx Linda

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