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Hibiscus is a family of shrubs that rarely grows tall. It does grow more and more beautiful, the more you prune it! Varieties and species.

Vibrant red tropical hibiscus flowers blooming in a summer garden with green foliage

Your Hibiscus Is About to Explode With Blooms — Unless You Make This One Mistake in June

Garden Flowers
Vibrant tropical garden with hibiscus bougainvillea and plumeria blooming in warm summer sunlight

Your Tropical Plants Are Telling You Something Right Now — Are You Listening?

Garden Flowers
Large tropical hibiscus with vivid red flowers blooming in a sunny summer garden

The Hibiscus Secret That Changes Everything (Most Gardeners Never Figure This Out)

Flowering houseplants
Vibrant pink hibiscus and orange bird of paradise blooming together in a sunny tropical garden

The 5 Tropical Plants Most Gardeners Kill by Accident (And Exactly How to Save Them)

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Vibrant hibiscus bougainvillea and bird of paradise tropical plants blooming in a lush summer garden

The 4 Tropical Plants That Will Transform Your Garden (And How to Keep Them Alive All Winter)

Garden Flowers
Hibi

Hibiscus moscheutos, a huge-flowered shrub with stunning blooms

Perennials
Flowers, palms and ferns create an exotic garden even when not in the tropics

Create an exotic garden… bring the tropics to your back yard

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Aphids on a hibiscus flower

Aphids and ants on hibiscus killing off flower buds

Treating diseases and pests
Guttation, drop on leaves

Guttation, how plants deal with too much water

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A single mature alyogyne flower against a black background.

Alyogyne, caring for them well

Shrubs
Yellow china rose with a few leaves against a pale gray background.

China Rose, hibiscus rosa sinensis

Flowering houseplants
Rose of sharon hibiscus

Hibiscus, a tropical sensation

Shrubs
Pale pink Rose of Sharon with a delicate-looking bloom.

Rose of Sharon, a flower shrub shrouded in the mysteries of the past

Shrubs
Pale violet Hibiscus syriacus flower with sun shining through the petals.

Hibiscus syriacus, an oriental beauty

Shrubs
Hibiscus althea blooms on new growth.

Hibiscus Althea, a very ornamental shrub

Shrubs
Open tea ball with dried carcade petals overflowing from it.

Carcade (roselle): the tart red hibiscus drink and how to use it

Health
Pink double althea flower with crimson red center.

Althea, a fantastic hibiscus

Shrubs
White hibiscus shrub in full bloom with blue sky in the background.

Hibiscus care – indoors and out!

Flowering houseplants
Winterizing plants, here with burlap, greenhouses, and other shelters

Plants to winterize and how to give them shelter

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