{"id":377,"date":"2012-09-21T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/staging.arghyagardens.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:27:30","slug":"new-hibiscus-cultivars-november-3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"NEW HIBISCUS CULTIVARS &#8211; November 3, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><span class=\"dropcap2\">D<\/span>espite last year&#8217;s freeze here in Florida, we managed to rescue some of our Hibiscus crosses. These crosses were made in Spring 2008, and the seed was harvested in the Summer of 2009. The outcomes were very interesting indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">The first cross is a Rainbow Christy x Silver Memories cross. Looks like it took a lot from Rainbow Christy. I really like Rainbow Christy for setting seed, producing pollen and easy reproduction. The plant has lots of stamina and very sturdy overall form. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/Hibiscus Rainbow Christy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Silver Memories has beautiful gray and yellow peach coloring. A good pollen donor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/Hibiscus Silver Memories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the resulting bloom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/Hibiscus William Knorr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You never know what you&#8217;re going to get!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Cross: Gator Pride x Heartbreak Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gator Pride<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/gpride.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heartbreak Hotel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/hbreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crossed result:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/Gator Pride x Hbreak Hotel - 2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Cross: Gabriel x Sunshowers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/gabegoodsq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunshowers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/sunshsquare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel x Sunshowers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/upload\/pages\/Gabriel x Sunshowerssq.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite last year&#8217;s freeze here in Florida, we managed to rescue some of our Hibiscus crosses. These crosses were made in Spring 2008, and the seed was harvested in the Summer of 2009. The outcomes were very interesting indeed! The first cross is a Rainbow Christy x Silver Memories cross&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/?p=377\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,61,9,16],"tags":[64,59,12,58,17],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hibiscus","category-hybridizing","category-pollen","category-propagation","category-seed","tag-hibiscus","tag-hybridizing","tag-pollen","tag-propagation","tag-seed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}