Noticing yellow leaves on your hibiscus plant? There are multiple potential reasons, but luckily each one has a solution.

Hardy hibiscus features delicate 8 to 10-inch flowers with ruffled petals in shades of red, pink, purple and white, and can grow to 4-6 feet tall with a shrub-like appearance.

VERNON - The 2018 Summer Spice Hardy Hibiscus collection by Texas A&M AgriLife Research debuts this weekend with 11 cultivars commercialized by J. Berry Nursery in Grand Saline. “For the ...

Alternatively, hardy hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos), also known as perennial hibiscus, can withstand the cold seasons in zones 4 to 9. This species dies back in the winter and returns in late spring.

The winter-hardy hibiscus breeding program became an official part of the AgriLife Research-Vernon strategic plan in 2010. Since then, Malinowski and his team have evaluated over 12,000 hybrids.

Louisiana gardeners have long loved the tropical hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. But, as this past winter has clearly shown, the tropical hibiscus is not reliably hardy when planted into the ground.

It’s on my wish list for our own yard. The winter hardiness rating of these hibiscus cultivars is Zone 4. In Zone 3, I would mulch heavily in early November with leaves, straw or wood mulch.

Malinowski and his team continue to work on another breakthrough: orange winter-hardy hibiscus. It is being developed from a salmon-colored hibiscus that turned up among the Vernon team's many ...

"It took four years of work and more than 1,000 crosses among three winter-hardy hibiscus species to achieve this goal of creating an almost-blue flowering hibiscus hybrid," he said.

The 2018 Summer Spice Hardy Hibiscus collection by Texas A&M AgriLife Research debuted recently with 11 cultivars commercialized by J. Berry Nursery in Grand Saline.