Hibiscus Purple Plant

Description

Add an instant tropical vibe, elegance, and beauty to your garden and home by growing these beautiful, purple hibiscus flowers. This plant is a genus of the mallows family, Malvaceae. The colorful, trumpet-shaped flowers are quite like no other and look great, both indoor and outdoor.

Commonly known as rose mallow, this plant blooms showy flowers that can wear any vibrant color-including purple, pink, white, red, orange, or yellow and opens beautifully. Each flower is almost 6 inches in diameter and doesn’t only enchant your eyes but also attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

If you take care of this plant properly your garden will be rewarded with years of lovely flowers.

This lovely plant has several health benefits. The leaves grow alternately with lobed margins and it is a hardy, deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub. These plants grow to a maximum height of 15 feet and are native to warm-temperate, tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world.  

Hibiscus Plant doesn’t require much maintenance and care to thrive.

Purple Hibiscus Special Features

• The plant blooms trumpet-shaped beautiful purple flowers.
• The plant is captivating.
• The plant has medicinal properties.
• It is low maintenance.

Purple Hibiscus Uses

Ornamental Use

• This plant can be used for ornamental purposes.

Medicinal Use

• The plant is used in many pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical preparations.

Culinary Use

• The flower of this plant is eaten by the Chinese as a pickle.
• Jamaicans use this flower in herbal tea as it contains many minerals and vitamins.
• Hibiscus is a delicacy in Mexico, and dried hibiscus leaves are nutritious.
• Hibiscus is also used for garnishing.

Planting and growing

• Hibiscus needs full sun to partial shade to bloom.
• These plants cannot survive heat above 85 F and can be killed if the temperature dips below 50 F. 
• Consider taking the plant inside when the temperature is chilly.
• You can also choose to grow this plant in containers. 
• Hibiscus is a thirsty plant that thrives and blooms only if it is watered adequately. 
• Reduce the frequency of watering during winters.
• Feed the soil with a diluted fish emulsion fertilizer to bloom vigorously.
• Don’t overwater the plant.
• Water stagnation must be avoided in all cases.
• Make sure the roots of the plant are damp but not too wet.
• Knock off the old soil from the plant root by removing all rotted and dead roots feet
• Prune your plant at least once each season to maintain a healthy look and to stimulate blooming.
• While planting hibiscus, make sure to dig a hole as deep as the root ball and 2 to 3 times wider. 
• This plant is generally free of pests and diseases.