Hi Onion. It could be caused by the stress of repotting. I have a tropical hibiscus in the ground which has large, double orange blooms normally. We had several days of torrential rain a couple of weeks ago, following a very dry winter. Well, after the rains for a few days, the plant had very small, pale peach flowers that were almost single. It was as if the plant force bloomed before the buds were mature. I assumed it was caused by the stress of sudden large amounts of water. The blooms were back to normal in a few days. So to make a long story short, I think maybe your plant is just in shock and will recover.

Ooops, merkity I didn't mean to imply I left empty handed. I used up the only cash I had, $20 and then had to find vendors who could take visa. I ended up buying 2 Hula Girls, 2 Edward Laplante and one Snow Queen. May try to go back tomorrow........if the mrs. let me. Darren

You could start with a *much* more diluted mix of fertilizer and ease up to it so you can be sure your plant isn't stressed at all, that's what I did with one of my extra sensitive hibiscus who had grown up without fertilizer and didn't like the normal dose all at once, and it did great. :) Especially since it responded with giving you an orange flower after you fertilized last week, I'd say that's a good sign that it really needs some food. I fertilize lightly with every watering because my plants prefer less more often. Unless your soil is amazing, your hibiscus most likely isn't getting what it needs from it to produce those colorful flowers.. I'm not sure, but I was actually reading an article that was talking about plants stealing nutrients, wherein they were saying that seed-mates are able to recognize each other and that they shared the nutrients from the soil/food rather than fighting each other for it. Pretty interesting! I'm not sure it's your problem though.. This post was edited by IvoryCirce on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 15:19

Yellow and pinks are more or less complementary colours. It is a classic combination in colour designs. However, it also depends on the hues of colours. A hot lipstick pink may not look great beside a faded creamy yellow for example. In the end, it really depends on what kind of effect you are trying to achieve. I don't really care about clashing colours myself because in the natural world, all colours are mixed together not segregated. But for those folks who wants the "designer" looks, it is another story. The general rule with regard to colours in gardening is that soft colours especially blue and pink tones colours will appear further away as opposed to hot fiery colours. This "rule" may be important for someone who has a small garden. If you want your garden to appear larger than they are, you may want to plant all the soft blue tones flowers in the back and the red fiery to the front as the eyes will detect the fiery colours first. It will trick the eye that the garden is much larger than it is.