Hibiscus grandiflorus Landscaper Favorite Few trees carry a collector's

Few trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple

and the winter silhouette of thick

content to leave the bark and the autumn fire to carry the season

Use dwarf fothergilla at the front of a moist

almost tropical air to ground that stays bone dry

Hibiscus grandiflorus Landscaper Favorite Few trees carry a collector'sHibiscus grandiflorus, the swamp rose mallow, is a magnificent native perennial of the southeastern United States, grown for enormous soft pink blooms and broad, velvety, gray green leaves. Rising to eight or ten feet on stout stems, the plant brings a lush, almost tropical presence to the summer garden, at home in a wetland but just as striking in an ordinary bed or beside a pond. The flowers are the reason to grow the plant, and they carry a secret.