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This year I planted from seeds several Hibiscus or Rose Mallow varieties. They came up easily and grew fine until one night the deer ate their tops off. I sprayed deer repellent on the remaining parts of the plants, stopping the nasty deer grazing. The plants are now doing well, sending gorgeous saucer size blooms one after the other.
Red Hibiscus.
White Hibiscus.
Pink and white Hibiscus.
Hibiscus pistil.
Red Hibiscus.
Finally, here are some of them together.
Hibiscus.
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Thanks for sharing the photos. You take excellent photos!!!
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I wish I had even one of these beautiful flowers in my garden…
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Rose Mallow is easy to grow but it needs plenty of sun and water.
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Well to spite the deer you got some beauties raise!
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Beautiful flowers. Our problem is rabbits. we don’t have a large garden in our condo “yard”, but we’ve been trying varieties that rabbits don’t like to eat. >grin<
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Thanks John! The deer repellent I use also deters rabbits.
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I suspect I have hibiscus envy 🙂 .. these are just marvellous. Glad you managed to save them
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Thank you Julie! You will have spring and summer soon, and hibiscus flowers perhaps?
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Beautiful images, Hien. I love this flower, gives the feeling of the tropics or beach!
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You are right, Donna! A touch of the tropics in a temperate zone.
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wow, such lovely flowers… love it… good work you done
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Thank you. Glad you like the photos!
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Lovely flowers. I’m intrigued to know what deer repellant is. Is it an odour that deters them?
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It’s a liquid concoction widely sold here. It smells pretty bad, for me anyway, and contains things like garlic and “putrescent egg solids”. I have to use it otherwise there would be no garden left. Building a fence is an alternative but that would be too expensive and ruin the view.
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Gorgeous Hien, wow ~ the size and brilliance in color, yet delicate in nature. Just love them.
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Thank you Mary! Glad you like these flowers.
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They are gorgeous flowers! I can imagine why they might look appetizing to the deer 😀 Our neighbours grow these blossoms too – it’s lovely to see them each morning.
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They look gorgeous indeed, every time I pass by them. I thought they were gone after the deer ate almost half of each plant, but they made a come back and none were lost.
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Pretty photos and flowers. I don’t know if this variety is edible but the Latino community make a wonderful drink with dried Hibiscus flowers and sugar or honey, called “Jamaica”. It is yummy. The deer repellent might make it toxic though.
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Thank you Katelon! “Jamaica” sounds yummy indeed!
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Wow, elegant vibrant flowers
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Thank you!
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Hibiscus is one of my favorite flowers. So many beautiful colors and variations. Your shots are wonderful!
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Thank you very much Helen!
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Beautiful photos of flowers my wife loves s much! Have a great weekend, Hien! Marcus
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Thank you, and a nice weekend to you too!
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Beautiful!!
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Thank you!
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They’re beautiful! A great success!
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Thank you very much Eliza!
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These are beautiful. I tried taking some photo of hummingbirds coming to the feeder this morning. It’s not so easy. Having tried it makes the recent images that you shared really amazing in terms of your technical skill. How you caught some in midflight is absolutely incredible. Cheers!
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Thank you Chris! Some tips that you may find useful: use a good tripod; use the longest telephoto lens that you have; aim your camera on the feeder and focus on it so that you don’t have to refocus too much when the bird shows up; wait until they show up and click away when they do; bump up your ISO so that you can shoot at least at 1/320 sec or even faster; use f8 or whatever will produce a sharp image on your camera.
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Thanks for the great ideas. I’ll try them. A bit of patience seems in order also. Cheers
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I didn’t know that you could grow these from seeds, and I didn’t know that there was a deer repellent that worked. I’m glad that everything worked as it should because these are stunning!
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Thank you Jerry! The deer repellent works, but you have to spray the plants again after a heavy rain. Even then, they came back to chomp off the top of several Cosmos plants that I had sprayed.
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Hibiscus are such works of art.
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Glad you like them Cheryl!
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How I love hibiscus but have failed at growing them in my garden. They seem to grow beautifully in other’s yard and even wild along the trails. As soon as I plant them, they die. 😜
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You are sure the deer did not eat them?
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No, I am not sure. I have seen deer around our house but didn’t know they enjoyed hibiscus. Maybe it is not all my fault. Thanks for my out on this one. 😉
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