Hibiscus grandiflorus Landscaper Favorite and the winter silhouette of

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Few trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple

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Hibiscus grandiflorus Landscaper Favorite and the winter silhouette ofHibiscus grandiflorus, the swamp rose mallow, is a magnificent native perennial of the southeastern United States, grown for enormous soft pink blooms and broad, velvety, gray green leaves. Rising to eight or ten feet on stout stems, the plant brings a lush, almost tropical presence to the summer garden, at home in a wetland but just as striking in an ordinary bed or beside a pond. The flowers are the reason to grow the plant, and they carry a secret.