Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca' Open House The differences in flavor and

The differences in flavor and color come from the timing of the harvest and the way the leaves are handled afterward: green tea from the youngest leaves

and carries the same vigorous

A graceful native onion

The flowers are the summer event: long racemose panicles

Genuinely rare and ranked as imperiled

Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca' Open House The differences in flavor and'Tosca' is the offspring of a rare and deliberate cross, a marriage of Hibiscus paramutabilis, the regal, large flowered species of southeastern China, with Hibiscus syriacus, the familiar Rose of Sharon of countless summer gardens. From that union comes a woody shrub that carries the best of both parents: the scale and drama of the Chinese species and the toughness and reliability of the old dooryard favorite. The flowers are the reason to grow