Hibiscus dasycalyx George Forrest For a hardy taste of

For a hardy taste of the tropics

whose winter estate lay at Fort Myers within reach of the plant's range

Honesty compels a note that Woodlanders has always made plainly: 'Blue Mist' does not carry the fiery autumn color of some other fothergillas

turn clear yellow in fall and then a warm russet-brown

and sandy seepage slopes from Virginia to eastern Texas

Hibiscus dasycalyx George Forrest For a hardy taste ofImportant: This plant is sold within South Carolina only. Hibiscus dasycalyx is one of the rarest wildflowers in the country, described only in 1968, and even then from a mere handful of sites in the bottomlands of east Texas, in Houston, Trinity, and Cherokee counties, along the Neches, Angelina, and Trinity rivers. The total wild population has been estimated in the low thousands. Whole seasons of botanical fieldwork across the Southeast have turned