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I was wondering how that worked out.  Did you get rid of some of the leaves
at the same time?

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Valerie, I have about twenty hibiscus plants that my husband and I have been 
nurturing for three years.  About two years ago a few of them got long
wand spindly and I got fed up and literally chopped them back almost to
the ground.  They came back in a few months, bushy and healthy.  I have
since made it a practice each fall before we move them inside to cut them
back *severely* and let them more or less rest over the winter months
inside with no fertilizer and water only about once a week.  We set them out 
(gradually because they will sunburn) in the late spring and they become
huge bushes by fall and bloom constantly.  Incidentally, my parents in
Florida have several outside their house and they prune them mercilessly
which seems to make them do better!  I have one which has a twisted trunk
like yours but you still need to prune the top in order to make it have
growth and new shoots (so that it looks like a tree).

Is it true that hibiscus flowers only last for one day when they
bloom?  I read that somewhere, and have been wondering for awhile.

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Well, there's a hardy version of the usual hibiscus... The tropical
kind (they grow all over the place in India, for example) are big
and red and frilly with white stamens. They are called "Shoe Flowers"
for some reason.

But I have 2-3 big bushes that grow on the west side of the house - they
survive the winter easily and come back every year without fail.
They are bluish/purple. 

And I planted a new bush in the front yard - HUGE white petals. HUMUNGOUS
flowers. I hope it survives. This was its first winter.

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