Those blooms are lovely, ngraham, Whetehr there are as many as there were at one time or not. Wedding Gown is lovely, And your hibiscus are fabulous.

Maybe the heat affected the color of your seedling. It is hot here anyway.

John Kirkland is very pretty...I notice I like doubles better than I used to.
kay

Wedding Gown is beautiful -- I had no idea it could be that ruffled. I also like your pale orange seedling. Nice job!

Those Hibiscus are lovely but what I really notice in the second Hibiscus picture is your very long driveway and all that room to add more gardenbeds. I know, you don't have any plans to do that. Good thing it's not me as I would really be out of control :-)

I like that orange cream seedling, it is my favorite. Wedding Gown looks excellent also.

Kay, it is really hot, so maybe it is bleaching out the color. John Kirkland I think is one of the prettier doubles. It is barely tipped in yellow, & that really seems to make it photograph well I think.
Every bloom on Wedding Gown has been very ruffled like this, I really like it. The blooms are always nice, although I can't say it really has lots of buds, but it is still just a single fan.
Rita, I'm always increasing the size of my beds, just not the number of beds. I was originally going to line my driveway with iris, daylilies, & daffs. We have a circle driveway though, & my husband wants me to just fill up the circle with a huge garden. You can just see the bottom edge of the teardrop shaped area. For some reason he really doesn't like mowing that area. I suspect he just wants to contain my plants :) Since I really like to pack plants pretty tightly to help prevent weeds, it will take me a while to fill it all up.

I like Pink Swirl and that sweeping Kentucky landscape.

I like to pack in my plants too but you all know me. I have so many plants here it's crazy. Can you imagine what would happen if I had all that room. I would go crazy buying daylilies and iris and just plant them everywhere. Then I would probably keel over from too much work LOL! Besides, a garden is never finished so you just keep on adding each year and maybe you can get the circle filled up. It really is so pretty there at your place.

I like Wedding Gown, it's so pretty, and reblooms! Isaac is very interesting and it's my second favorite. Your not as orange seedling is beautiful!

WEDDING GOWN is my favorite today.Them Hibiscus are gorgeous.I have not seen ones like that in years,

Jean

I agree about WEDDING GOWN. What a lovely bloom but odd it takes so long to open.
Hibiscus are so lovely. I see them all the time at the Lowes or HD but I don't think they will survive our winters here.

Julia

The garden looked pretty good through June, I managed to keep the weeds down. So hot out now though, they are getting a hold on again. I am going to do some heavy duty mulching this fall when it cools down. Probably mostly with leaves, but hopefully that will help a lot. If I don't get a method to reduce weeding, I won't be able to expand much more.
Nat4b, Isaac is a pretty thing, & think its simplicity is what is so attractive about it, a bit different look from anything else. It has been blooming constantly since June 4 this year.
Thanks Jean & Julia! I'm really enjoying Wedding Gown. I grew these hibiscus from seed, I just wish the Japanese beetles didn't like them so well. They really like Pink Swirl for some reason, you can see little holes in some of the flowers. I think the beetles are on the way out, don't seem so prolific the last couple of days. Julia, the hardy hibiscus are supposed to overwinter to zone 4. Not sure I would count on zone 4, but they should do fine for you. They die back to the ground each winter & are late the next year to come back. I think it is great that they are blooming in July/August when nothing much else is blooming.

Wedding Gown is gorgeous.
Linda

I really like that seedling :) Very nice color- it will be interesting to see what it does as it gets older.
Nancy, my blooms are really much lighter in the heat as well..Marietta Polka-dot actually has been blooming beautifully but it lost all its polkadots. Lol

Thanks Linda.
Crackingtheconcrete, I'm hoping it will shape up as well as its sibling which is a lighter yellow. I would really like this to remain a creamsicle color simply because I don't have anything quite like it. It is definitely hot here though, so that is probably it.

Yes, hardy hibiscus overwinters here, I don't have any but the people I know do.

Nancy. I have been gathering fall leaves and mulching heavily in the fall for years. If a miss a year (like last fall) then I have to mulch with the straw in the spring and summer. That is what I am doing now. I could never manage if the garden was not mulched as weeds would take over the world. Another thing you could try is a tip I got from Kay of using preen before you mulch if your going to use the common bagged mulches anywhere. It really helps.

Love your purple seedling. Just a beautiful flower.

I tried Preen in a couple beds this spring, & plan on using it more. I tried it a few years ago & wasn't impressed, but this seemed to work pretty well.
Thanks dragonkeep, that purple seedling seems to just keep blooming. I'm pleased too that it doesn't fade much in this heat.

Maybe because it's so hot here I'm looking at those cool pale colors and appreciating them. I really like your picture of the double John Kirkland. Very nice indeed....Maryl