My plant was located in a 5-gal. pot, in full sun. I had to water it quite a bit and I added a little MG once a month but it bloomed from a 4" pot size and is located in my greenhouse for the winter, and is still blooming in great abundance.

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After some research, I learned that the Hibiskiss series of plants are actually known exotic varieties from Dupont Nursery and Charles Black. I guess this is a joint venture between the two growers and an large scale nursery selling to box stores. Hugs and Kisses is Dupont's Creole Lady. Spin the Bottle is Cosmic Dancer, and All a Flutter is Black's Acapulco Gold. This is a great way to get newer CVs to everybody, and increase awareness.

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Hibiscus 'Hugs and Kisses' is a cultivar from the new series of hibiscuses hybridized for their large fancy blooms of exciting tropical colors. This cultivar has 7-inch ruffled-edge flowers that are pink to lavender, radiating out to salmon-peach edges. 'Hugs and Kisses' thrives as a landscape plant in southern frost-free gardens, both as a specimen shrub or as a multi-plant hedge, but it also makes a wonderful container plant that can be kept to optimum size with pruning. It requires a good organic well-draining soil and full to part sun with frequent watering during the summer months.

I grow Hugs and Kisses as a container plant here in my central Florida garden in a location where it gets afternoon shade. I move it to a covered porch if frost or freeze is predicted in winter. I reduce the amount of water in the winter and prune lightly when I move it back outdoors in spring.

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