Hibiscus moscheutos 'Red Wine'

Botanical details

Family

Malvaceae

Native to the UK

No

Potentially harmful

Genus

Hibiscus

Genus

description

Hibiscus can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, trees, annuals or perennials, with simple or palmately lobed leaves and large, funnel-shaped flowers over a long flowering season

Hibiscus moscheutos 'Red Wine'/RHS Gardening

Description

Hibiscus moscheutos 'Red Wine' is a variety of rose mallow with giant flowers of a brilliant dark red hue, enhanced by dark purple, almost black, foliage! This exotic-looking plant offers contrasting colours and an extravagant flowering from July to September in cups of about 20 cm (7.9 in) with silky petals of a deep and vibrant red, discreetly illuminated by cream stamens. Short-lived, they constantly renew themselves as long as there is enough moisture in the soil. Its dark foliage is particularly ornamental with its strongly lobed shape and its green underside contrasting with its red-purple stems and veins. It is a hardy shrubby perennial down to -15 °C (5 °F) whose bushy clump of about 1 m (3 ft 4 in) in all directions disappears completely in winter to regrow from the stump each spring. Accustomed to warm marshes, it is a plant that loves full sun

and rich, moist to wet soils. Use it to form temporary hedges with other marsh mallows, a highly coloured background at the edge of a pond, or plant them in several pots to punctuate the surroundings of a terrace.

Hibiscus moscheutos Red Wine - Rose mallow with large dark red flowers against a backdrop of deep purple, almost black foliage. (promessedefleurs.eu)

 

 

 

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