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A low growing variegated form, grey green leaves with creamy margins, and mauve flowers that fade to white.

Also known as Hibiscus militaris this smooth stemmed plant is quite distinctive (laevis means smooth). It is an important parent of the modern hybrids

Walters evaluated thousands of Hibiscus seedlings (we donated a few plants to this effort), and from these many seedlings they selected this large pinkish magenta plant with a red eye and 9” heavily ruffled round flowers and overlapping petals. A stunning landscape specimen this grows 4-5’ in a single season. If you live in areas that have Hibiscus Sawfly a single spray will usually control them. If you don’t want to spray, plants will look a bit moth-eaten until they grow new leaves but will survive unharmed. My impression is this and some of the other new cultivars are less bothered by pests than some of the older varieties, I never spray ours in the landscape and they still manage an impressive floral display.

Also known as Hebe buxifolia nana, a compact bush with lilac flowers, it is possibly a hybrid with Hebe odora, named for Marie Turnbull a new zealand botanical artist.

Nice variegated foliage good-sized clusters of flowers on medium sized plants, not a hope of wintering outside here.