My hibiscus spends half the year outside on the terrace. When I bring it indoors in November, it loses about 80 percent of its leaves, and I use that moment to prune it so it develops a nice crown. It always responds to the pruning with a strong flush of new, vigorous shoots—these are the ones that produce the flowers. And those flowers brighten my living room, while it’s cold and gray outside, with their wonderfully sunny, exotic blooms.
Now it would be time to move it back out onto the terrace. But this year it has grown much more in the living room than in previous years. It no longer fits through the terrace door, even when I bend the branches quite a bit. So, with a heavy heart, I’ll probably have to cut it back and hope it forgives me.
by happy-rosemary
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