{"id":1388,"date":"2011-06-18T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2011-08-03T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:04:15","slug":"hibiscus-x-%e2%80%98fireball%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/06\/18\/hibiscus-x-%e2%80%98fireball%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming \u2018Fireball\u2019 Hibiscus Quite A Summer Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hibiscus 'Fireball' photo by North Creek Nurseries<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hibiscus 'Fireball' photo by North Creek Nurseries<\/p><\/div>\n

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‘Fireball’ hibiscus (Hibiscus x moscheutos <\/em>\u2018Fireball\u2019) is a vigorous hardy perennial with burgundy tinted cutleaf foliage and huge 10-12 inch\u00a0clear red flowers from mid-summer to late summer.<\/p>\n

Plant height is 4 – 5 feet and 2 – 3 feet in width. A strikingly beautiful plant, \u2018Fireball\u2019 thrives on heat and humidity. It wants full sun and a moist well drained soil to reach its full flowering potential. Expect hundreds of blooms on\u00a03-4 years old established plants grown in a richly amended composted soil and kept irrigated.<\/p>\n

Flowers\u00a0are both huge and showy.\u00a0Blooms are the size of dinner plates.\u00a0A prominent pistil and stamen is in the center of each flower.\u00a0 Each bloom lasts but one day, but\u00a0‘Fireball’\u00a0blooms almost nonstop from July to early September.<\/p>\n

Hardy hibiscus demands heat, moisture and long days. They are late\u00a0to emerge from the soil, many years after May 15th\u00a0in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Feed them regularly with a water soluble\u00a020-10-20 fertilizer (or equivalent). Hibiscus sawfly, mites,\u00a0and aphids\u00a0may be serious nemeses.<\/p>\n

This late flowering habit makes\u00a0hardy hibiscus\u00a0ideal companion plants to interplant with spring blooming bulbs like daffodils and tulips.<\/p>\n

Fireball\u2122 is one of several hardy hibiscus bred by the Fleming Brothers in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was\u00a0their favorite perennial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  ‘Fireball’ hibiscus (Hibiscus x moscheutos \u2018Fireball\u2019) is a vigorous hardy perennial with burgundy tinted cutleaf foliage and huge 10-12 inch\u00a0clear red flowers from mid-summer to late summer. Plant height is 4 – 5 feet and 2 – 3 feet in width. A strikingly beautiful plant, \u2018Fireball\u2019 thrives on heat and humidity. It wants full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[605,602,733,763,625,202,630,706,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}