Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum' George Forrest The tubular blooms appear in

The tubular blooms appear in clusters along the stems and carry on well into early fall

in flower and in fruit

In early to mid summer

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

dense and neatly rounded

Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum' George Forrest The tubular blooms appear inHibiscus 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