Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum' George Forrest and let the fertile flowers

and let the fertile flowers feed bees and butterflies through summer

neutral to acidic soil

so a single plant can shift through a whole range of warm tones across the season

In early to mid summer

in flower and in fruit

Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum' George Forrest and let the fertile flowersHibiscus mutabilis has been grown in Southern gardens for so long that many people assume the shrub is a native, though the species traces to southern China, where gardeners prized the flowers centuries before the plant traveled west. The species name mutabilis, meaning changeable, describes the wild trick of the ordinary Confederate Rose, whose blooms open white in the morning and deepen to pink and then rose red by evening. 'Rubrum' skips the