Ginger: It's the second time in @ a month that we've mowed the lawn, we've had a bit of rain lately and although it didn't really need mowing yesterday I decided to do it anyway.
I'm not sure if the Hibiscus would grow in your area or not. We had the one below at our other house for many years and it would grow above the top of the screened pool enclosure. I'd chop it down and it always grew back in one season but when we had those two really freezing winters in a row (2009, 2010?) the plant was so stressed that it totally died. Those two winters were brutal, we had a lot of ice and lost many plants.