That’s so pretty, rouge!! I need to try one, maybe next year! :)

Sadly, I don't have any, lol. I did plant a Lady Baltimore, I think it was, years ago when I first started gardening. I battled with hibiscus sawfly and finally gave up. Recently however I've been eyeing them again. I actually spent the other afternoon googling and oogling lol. Perhaps next year.....

Yours is lovely, rouge. So healthy looking and full of blooms!

:)

Dee

Lovely white, Rouge. I bet it would be great in a moon garden.

Dee, I haven't seen any sawfly on my Midnight Marvel for two seasons in a row now so I took a chance and planted the variegated cultivar Summer Carnival. Fingers crossed...

If I had somewhere to put it, I'd look for that Blue River II Rouge! I have quite a few hardy hibiscuses but they are all pink or red ones... They are great to plant with early tulips as the hibiscuses are late to start growing so the tulips have a chance to put on their show and then the hibiscuses come along and hide the dying bulb foliage. The hibiscuses here start blooming in late July (one of the pale pink ones) and some of the red ones (the red ones here all start blooming later than the pink ones...)continue into mid-late September. I even have a picture from a few years ago of a red one with a flowerbud in early November! At the moment most of the bloom is on a pale pink one with a darker 'eye' - I'm not sure of its name but think it's a Disco Belle. There is a couple of Lord Baltimore red ones that opened yesterday/today... With the heat and humidity and rain the garden is very overgrown and in need of pruning, deadheading, and weeding so these pictures aren't very good! But for late summer color and a long bloom period a couple of hardy hibiscuses in different colors are a good choice (we always deadhead the seed capsules to ensure they don't seed around though).

'woody', I have seen your hibisci in person and they are so good :).

(It is incredible how much rain you and I have had this past 6 weeks eh?)

nidnay - where is your garden? It looks like things are blooming earlier than here....

Rouge - We had just shy of 5" of rain here in July vs. our longterm (2004-2021) average of 3.52"! So far this month we've had almost 2.5" compared to 3.26" longterm average for Aug. and there is more rain in the forecast, so it looks like it might be another wet month. I wouldn't be surprised if you've had even more rain because we're in the 'rain shadow' of the Niagara Escarpment and often see rain clouds divert north (or south) as they approach the Escarpment. May and September are our driest months and May was very dry this year, so I'm wondering if September will be very dry too.

@woodyoak….Sorry about that….zone 7b NC.

Omg, nidnay, no one should be allowed to have a garden that looks that fabulous in mid-August hahaha! Everything looks so healthy and fresh and un-eaten, un-tattered, un-beaten-down-by-heat-and-drought (or by too much rain lol!)

You've jogged my memory and it was LORD Baltimore I had, not Lady. Wow, is that how big they get? Mine was nowhere near that size. But I was a new gardener and probably didn't site it well.

:)

Dee

@diggerdee zone 6 CT….oh trust me, the garden is on its way to looking horrible 😭 late August/September is not a kind month for gardening pics…at least where I am.

And rain??….all my panicle hygrangeas have completely flopped. I am trying to devise an attractive way to support my Phantoms for next year (see pic). Completely impossible to tackle it now…..although I tried 😳

I have Lord Baltimore on drip and most of the other hibiscus. They do LOVE water.

Lovely!

Hibiscus 'Berry Awesome'

Wow, i love the photos! what beautiful august gardens, they all look so lush.

PM2, that's still going strong huh? Awesome. I really love the color of this - and especially with perovskia?? if I am identifying correctly? A beautiful vignette!

Nidnay, the hibiscus I'm planning will be in a wet garden, so I'm hoping for better results this time around!

:)

Dee

So pretty everyone!

nidnay that lord baltimore is beautiful...it glows!

PM that first pic is gorgeous! Frame worthy imo.

My poor hybiscus has been pummeled by all the downpours weve been having. Never had this happen before...not sure it will even recover.

It’s so nice to see so many gardens looking good in the dog days of August. It’s been a very odd season weather wise, but, with all the rain we’ve had, it seems to have smoothed things over. My garden has peaked really and it starts to go downhill from here. When the angle of the sun starts to shift I end up with a lot less sunlight in some areas. I’m thinking of starting to pull some things apart and start getting ready for next year soon.

I’m looking at all the Hibiscus here and wish I had more sun to have more. I remember it was Woody’s photos of her very full plants full of flowers that pushed me to buy one. I had a few different varieties in the past that didn’t do as well in less than full sun. This one is 3 years old and this year it had so many buds. I do like the combination with the hydrangea.

Dee, it is pretty with the Perovskia too. Mine is ‘Blue Spire’ and I have seen Perovskia perform better in soils that are not as heavy as mine. That photo is from a week ago. It’s still blooming, I’ll have to take another photo. It’s been blooming 3 weeks now.

Nidnay, the rain has flattened two of my Hydrangea with the larger blossoms. One with smaller blooms without the weight has fared better.

GardenHo, I set my camera on Auto and take a lot of photos thinking a couple will be good and that’s usually how it works. So many look awful…lol. I read somewhere the light for garden photos is best either early morning or late afternoon and never at noon and that’s the only thing I pay attention to. That is one of my favorite photos this season.

It’s so great when your garden looks it’s best and we can all take photos to capture the moment because it doesn’t usually last very long. But hopefully over a season you end up with a series of moments when the garden is really pretty.

GardenHo, did your Hibiscus have branches that snapped off? If not, I’d wager that it will come back next season just fine. The root system should be fine with all the rain we’ve been having.

Pm yes I’m sure it will be fine next year. It just looks so sad now...like many other plants from the storms...

You love getting the rain, but when it comes down in buckets, it can have quite a detrimental effect on plants that are just starting to show their stuff. I was so happy with my Little Lime Hydrangea until we had a storm the other night too. Now it has not looked good since. Oh well... I would rather have the rain and deal with the drooping branches. I might think about adding some support next year.

Oh well... I would rather have the rain and deal with the drooping branches.

That would be my also ie (too much) rain vs too little.

I just have a questoin….im new to this and i have some Rose of Sharon cuttings in soil, they are doing fine but no roots could someone help me

I would post a new thread. Rose of Sharon is a little different than Hardy Hibiscus.

We just had our first rain in over two weeks! (I know because I was watering two and a half weeks ago when I got stung and haven't been back out to water since lol!). Gee, actually it's probably closer to three and and a half to four weeks. For well over a month they've been forecasting rain, so I don't water. It doesn't rain, but rain is once again forecast the next day, so I don't water. It doesn't rain. Weeks and weeks of this, with I think one little shower that honestly, I could spit harder and get more moisture on my garden than the shower gave lol.

So the garden has been in desperate need of rain (since I certainly wasn't venturing back out there lol) and it rained very heavily here this morning. Not for very long, though, so I don't know how much we got, but I'll take it!

The rain also helped break this oppressive heat we've been having. Last night at 10pm it was still 87 degrees outside - which was admittedly much better than the 90-something in the afternoon. It's 82 now, so hopefully by tonight it will cool off more. It has indeed been a challenging season weather-wise!

:)

Dee