Hibiscus Quotes

“He told her the story of the missionary's bride who wrote home describing her bungalow in an African forest clearing. "Outside my window as I write is a magnificent hibiscus with hundreds of blooms making a splendid splash of color against the jungle." A year later, she wrote again, and she said outside her window was that "damned hibiscus, still blooming.”
― William C. Heine, The Last Canadian

“What plant?'
'Sorry?'
"What plant did Mum leave, at the grave?'
Sally went to the open window and reached through to pick a peach-colored flower from a blooming bush. She offered it to Alice.
'Beach hibiscus,' Alice cried softly, remembering the flower crown her mother made when she was a child. Remembering its meaning in the Thornfield Dictionary. Love binds us in eternity.”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.”
― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters

“It was then that I noticed the hibiscus tree. Its magenta flowers were in bloom, brilliant and full with fertile golden centers. The tree was incongruous with its surroundings- the dirt, the man weathered from the sun and life.”
― Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine