Catalog Description
Large, single blooms of bright orange colored petals with crinkled edges quickly change color to a blush red eye zone over a white background; 6 to 8 feet high, 5 to 6 feet wide. Showy! |
Design Ideas
Hibiscus is good for foundation planting along buildings and fence lines. Accentuate with bold flowering plants and vines that add to the color range. With its dense, glossy foliage, this Hibiscus creates a solid hedge or screen. Plant as a specimen to highlight entries or gateways. Very good choice against plaster or stucco walls. Reliable cover for unsightly side yard fences and spaces between windows. Most charming when trained into a patio tree and planted in large pots stuffed with annual color. |
Companion Plants
Alyogyne huegelii`s soft lavender-blue flowers help tame Fiesta`s hot, showy flowers that open orange and fade to red and white.
Underplant with Lavandula multifida and Phormium tenax `Jack Spratt`.
White oleanders are good companions, too.
| |
|
Average Landscape Size
Moderate-growing to 6 to 8 ft. high, 5 to 6 ft. wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
This evergreen shrub displays large single blooms of bright orange petals with crinkled edges that quickly change to a blush red eye zone over a white background. Use for screening or specimen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Prune semi-annually to maintain topiary form. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Round |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 12 (>210 days) |
| Low: | 3 (>7 to 14 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 11 (Above 40 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 10 (30 to 40 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
|  |
|
Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Flowers are large, funnel-shaped, single blooms, 5-petaled and ruffled
| Flower Color |
| Orange |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Colorful flowers during warm months. |
|
Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring |
|
Attributes
Border Plant
Espaliers
Fall Flowering
Hummingbird Friendly
Indoor Specimen
Modern Garden
Patio Container Plant
Seacoast Exposure
Showy Flowers
Summer Flowering
Tolerates Poor Soils
Tropical |
Foliage
Glossy, dark-green leaves with toothed margins
| Foliage Shape | Ovate |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
|
Plant Lore
French impressionist painter Paul Gauguin made the hibiscus famous by often depicting this flower in Tahitian scenes. |
Plant History
The genus Hibiscus contains over 200 species from around the world. It was named from the Latin for rose of China, pointing to its place of origin in southeast Asia where plants were found in the literature as early as 295 BC. All early descriptions indicate the first plants bore red flowers, with the other colors the result of breeding. It was introduced into Europe in 1731. |
New Plant
|