The following information comes from the 'Kahala, volume no. 2, 2007.'

Jill Coryell is a hybridizer, she is a handmaiden to evolution and a midwife to the hibiscus.

Hawaii Calls

Jill Coryell lives surrounded by hundreds of varieties of of the gorgeous hibiscus that she and mother nature have crafted together.

Hi'Iaki

There are hibiscus of all colors, with petals sytraight or ruffled, stamens long or short, blossoms flat or full.

Halema'uma'U Beauty

To bring forth each luminous new being, Jill cross-pollinates two existing different hibiscus, collects seeds, plants it, and then waits.

Keakealani

The work is pure magic.

Pua Hone

Imagine witnessing the exact moment a unique new creature opens its very first bud up to the sun and out to the world.

Lu'Ukia

Jill's flowers are all born in her small farm on Oahu's North Shore and named to honor the people and places of the Islands she loves.

Mililani Mist

Thank you for sharing these beautiful images and the information.
Hawaii is truly calling me.

Love,
Vicky

Hawaii is also calling me.
These flowers are very beautiful.
Thank you for the beautiful post.

Love,
Sue

Thank you for the nice post Inda.
I think that Hawaii is calling me as well.
I would love to go there and see all the beautiful flora.

Sincerely,
Gisele

Jill Coryell, of Mokule'ia, has created about 7,000 types of hibiscus.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/11/il/FP603110306.html

I found this information on the internet. This is an amazing number of flowers that she has created. Just imagine how beautiful they are.

Thank you for your replies and the photo of Jill Coryell.



I love hibiscus and would like to travel to the farm someday to see all the wonderful variety of blooms.

Love, Inda

The beautiful hibiscus is the national flower of Hawaii.

Selectiohn from a poem "The Hibiscus Flower"
by Mary Louisa Beatrice Olcott

...When tropic morning sparkles up the world
Thy petals are uncurled,
And all thy scarlet blossom swells and glows
Past fire tint of the rose;
haunting the splendid day,
And flaming deep
In a brave shine of sunlight every way,
Till star-eyed dusk
when the furled petals sleep.

An amazing thread! Wonderful, I had seen it before, but couldn't right then reply. But I was reminded of this thread when a few days ago I visited a friend who is recovering from surgery. She had been given a wonderful plant of hibiscus by her son.

Amazing words too: ... she is a midwife to hibiscus!

Thank you, dear Inda, for this gallery of hibiscus flowers, they are stunningly beautiful! I loved also the poem you posted!

And I found a beautiful picture in my favorite color on the site of Tony Howell, my favorite photographer:

Hibiscus "Blue Bird" Rose of Sharon



With all my love,
Margherita

Thank you Inda for this wonderful post.
I love Hibiscus and I try and keep a plant in my room, but it does not do as well as in the garden. Unfortunately our Canadian climate does not allow the plant to remain in the garden over the winter.

Thank you Margherita for the beautiful image.



Love,
yoko

Thank you dear Margherita and yoko.

The Hibiscus "Blue Bird" Rose of Sharon
is truly beautiful. What an amazing colour.

Love, Inda

The Hibiscus is a real beauty.
Thank you everyone.

Love,
Sue