Flower-Of-An-Hour
Also known as
Flower of an Hour, Flower of an Hour, Flower-of-an-hour, Bladder hibiscus, Bladder ketmia, Bladder weed, Flower-of-the-hour, Modesty, Puarangi, Shoofly and Venice mallow
Taxonomy
Hibiscus trionum
Hibiscus
Malvaceae
Malvales
How to care for Flower-Of-An-Hour
How often to water your Flower-Of-An-Hour
Flower-Of-An-Hour needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
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Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Flower of an Hour in your home
Flower-Of-An-Hour love being close to bright, sunny windows 😎.
Place it less than 1ft from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Flower-Of-An-Hour does not tolerate low-light 🚫.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Flower-Of-An-Hour in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Flower-Of-An-Hour
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Flower-Of-An-Hour after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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Look who decided to give me a new flower!!! Im so happy cus it had some hard time adapting to the climate change! #happyplants #plantsmakepeoplehappy #plantaddict #newgrowth #newplantmom #proudplantmommoment
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What are the lowest temperature for a plant outside. #ChineseHibiscus
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Can anyone tell me why the leaves are turning yellow and dying please?
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Happy Thursday all you fellow plant people! 🪴🍃🌺 #Hibiscus #NewGrowth #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #FloweringPlants
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Happy Friday to all of you! Just sharing my beautiful randomly pink #Hibiscus flower 🌸 that opened this morning. #FloweringPlants #Flowers #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy
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I have four #ChineseHibiscus plants, and they all struggled last winter when I brought them inside. It was my first time overwintering them and I did some things wrong. Lessons learned and I won’t make the same mistakes when I bring them in this year! Two of them have struggled a bit to produce flowers this summer, but I neglected to fertilize them (though I did repot in fresh soil at the beginning of spring) so I think that and just trying to recover from the winter could be the reasons. ANYWAY, this girl has struggled the most and all but one branch died last winter! She didn’t put out her first flower until a few weeks ago. BUT, I woke up this morning to this gorgeous double bloom! 😍💖🌺 Diana, you’re doing great and I promise to do better this winter! #HappyPlants #OutsidePlants #OutdoorGrowing #Hibiscus #BeautifulBlooms #NewGrowth #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #babevila
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I’ve brought my #ChineseHibiscus inside for the winter, and they are still blooming like crazy! Diana here keeps blessing me with double blooms. I think they like the succulent light I put over them! 🤗🌺🌿 And, since Benny and Bonnie the frogs are semi hibernating, here is a picture of my brother @Borophyll and SIL’s newly adopted calico kittens, Amelia and Simone. How cute are they?! 😍🥰 #PetsAndPlants #HappyPlants #Hibiscus #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #Blooming #FloweringPlants #GregGang #babevila
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My #ChineseHibiscus stays putting out new blooms this past week! There’s been a new one just about every day 🌺🤗 Also the cold snap finally left and we’re getting a short reprieve, so #BonnieTheTreeFrog emerged from the burrow she made in the soil of my #Begonia and #BennyTheTreeFrog came out of hiding as well! Poor babies both look hungry and tired. They’ll be feasting on bugs tonight to replenish their energy stores. I’m playing with the idea of getting an aquarium and keeping them as pets, since they’re both so comfortable with me. Haven’t decided yet, still doing research to see if it’s a good idea. Normally I’d never consider taking a wild animal as a pet but from what I’ve read this type of frog does pretty well as long as you know how to recreate their environment and feed them. 🤔🐸 and here is a photo of an adorable bumblebee asleep in one of my #Cosmo. If you want to attract #pollinators to your yard, you should definitely try cosmos! I get dozens of bees every year and the males fall asleep in the flowers every night and it’s pretty stinking cute 🥰 🐝 #pollinatorgarden #PetsAndPlants #PetsOfGreg #Hibiscus #BloomsforDays #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #NewGrowth #babevila
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I recently received my plant in the mail as a gift. I transferred it to an appropriate sized pot and now I've had a lot of leaves die off. How long should it take to recover from the transplant shock? #ChineseHibiscus
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James Dean bloomed today and it looks like he's blooming again tomorrow #plantsmakepeoplehappy #plantaddict #hibiscus
Care Summary for Flower-Of-An-Hour
Flower-Of-An-Hour
Greg recommends:
0.5 cups every 9 days
< 1ft from a window
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.