Hibiscus Pink Teacups Dianthus Musa velutina was our first

Musa velutina was our first introduction to hardy bananas and is still a favorite in our summer garden

Musa 'Truly Tiny' makes a perfectly formed but shrunken plant with leaves that are nicely blotched in red

Dry to average moisture soils work great

you'll enjoy the delicious early winter-ripening fruits

The leaf edge emerges a creamy yellow in spring and turns nearly pure white by summer

Hibiscus Pink Teacups Dianthus Musa velutina was our firstHibiscus 'Pink Teacups', a 2019 Plant Delights JLBG introduction is one of those lovely surprises that becomes a game changing perennial. In 2014, we visited plantsman Rick Lewandowski at Shangri La Botanical Gardens in southeast Texas. Rick was kind enough to share seed from a patch of dormant hibiscus, whose foliage appeared to be a hybrid swarm of Hibiscus coccineus and Hibiscus laevis. The gem of the resultant seed crop was an 8' tall specimen