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Hibiscus bloom

by Tricia

Hibiscus

I like to always have a hibiscus around.

Sometimes I’m not all that successful keeping them alive inside my dark house in the winter but I always have one each summer, whether it’s new or one that survived the winter.

I just love hibiscus flowers. They’re so large and beautiful.

Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible? I don’t eat them but I do occasionally drop a hibiscus flower in with my box turtles and they eat it up. They love eating flowers.






Filed Under: Perennials, Photography Tagged With: Beautiful, Box Turtles, edible flowers, flower, flowers, hibiscus, hibiscus flowers, House, summer, winter

Comments

  1. Jenny-up the hill says

    June 22, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    I love hibiscus too! There is a gal down the street from us that grows the lovliest ones around here. They are just amazing. I think it’s neat that your box turtles gobble the flowers up! lol!

  2. Harmonia says

    June 22, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    that’s amazing! Great pic! I’ve had Hibiscus in my teas! I love my teas! 😉

  3. Rayne says

    June 23, 2007 at 7:52 am

    I have read about many different flowers that are edible, I didn’t know the hibiscus was, though. I went to a party once where they had crystalized flowers as part of the cake decorations but I was too afraid to eat them. We grew up in a heavily wooded area with all sorts of berries, flowers, etc. and my mother hammered home to not EVER eat anything and now I just can’t get myself to do it.
    I do feed clover flowers to my guinea pig, though. He absolutely loves them.


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