Yes Confederate Rose Cuttings can be made almost anytime of the year. I found that they start best in just a container of water set in a shaded area and forgotten. I used my cuttings for tomato supports. They had set for over a week, out of 12 3 sprouted. When I cannot give them away locally I just stick them into the ground anywhere that nothing is growing so now I have 6 plants blooming, if left in the ground they will be well over 6+ feet tall next year. If cut back to the ground after a freeze they will do find the next year.

Hi everyone, I've posted here-and-there about how happy I am to finally have some H. mutabilis myself. I started them from stem cuttings over the winter (easily rooted in plain water). They've been outside in the ground since February and they're growing like crazy and seem really happy, although every now and then one super young leaf will suddenly turn brown and fall off, but I'm attributing that to heat burn. In any case, I've got several of them growing really well right now but not a single sign of blooms, so I thought I'd check with our local growers about when their plants bloom. Sooo, warm-winter/hot-summer folks, can you share what times of years your Confederate roses bloom? I'm hoping that it's spring/autumn and that I just need to wait for the Blast Furnace months to be over, but any first hand experience with bloom time would be great. I don't have any good pics of the whole plants right now as I'm typing, but here's one from last month and you can see at the VERY bottom some of the foliage sneaking into the pic, LOL. Thanks as always! Take care, Grant

Purpleinopp, I am no way an authority on hibiscus but I do have one of these and it isn't white and it isn't red, it is light pink all day from what I've seen. They had a double pink that looked like the exact same plant that I bought a the USF Plant sale. It is getting ready to bloom again and I will have to keep an eye on it, it has only bloomed two or three times since I've had it. Hibiscus do some really weird things so I take all minor differences with a grain of salt. I read that article some time ago and said "Hmmm, changes throughout the day, nice". Of course there are so many hybrids out there......... As far as wiki, you don't have to site a source and I think everyone can edit it, if I'm not mistaken. I think of wiki as a good starting point for a lot of research but not the final authority for most stuff. Darren

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