Purple Hibiscus Flowers are beautiful tropical plants that symbolize growth, transformation, and spiritual awakening. The purple hue associated with these gorgeous blooms in spiritual traditions represents Crown Chakra energy.
Purple hibiscuses symbolize Jaja’s hope for a different future and life after being victimized by his Papa’s abuse, while they also signify how flowers bloom despite tragedies and tragedies.
Flowers
Purple is one of the more uncommon hues seen on hibiscus flowers and can be found in cold, hardy, and tropical varieties. Hard hardy varieties tend to lean more toward blue than the rosier tones found in tropical species; however, numerous beautiful purple types will flourish in any garden setting.
The Purple Pillar” hibiscus produces double blossoms beginning in summer and continuing through fall with two-layered petal arrangements, starting in summer and continuing into fall. Each flower features deep magenta center colors fading to delicate lavender petal tips – an eye-catching feature in any landscape or hedgerow! Furthermore, this plant’s unique pillar-like form makes it suitable as both an accent piece and a focal point in hedgerow plantings or gardens.
“French Cabaret Purple Hibiscus” is another stunning variety. This vibrant variety produces clusters of sterile flowers resembling pom-poms along its stems, lending it an eye-catching aesthetic in gardens and landscapes. When fully grown, this variety can reach 16 feet tall by four to five feet, making it an excellent choice for creating hedgerows or as an accent feature in landscape designs.
“Purple Satin Hibiscus” flowers feature the classic shape of traditional hibiscus blooms: circle-of-oblong petals surrounding a fat white stamen and with gradient colors of cool bluish-violet and pinkish-purple gradient coloration. It thrives well in sunny to partly shaded garden beds, fence rows, and other landscape settings where the sun or partial shade exposure exists; it is known to attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Leaves
Purple hibiscus flowers offer an easy way to bring tropical flair and beauty to any garden or landscape. These plants thrive in sunny spots and make an eye-catching summer focal point or privacy hedge, or can even make for great container gardening and urban spaces as they bloom for much of summer while attracting hummingbirds and butterflies – they require minimal upkeep, adapt well across climate zones, and bloom all season long!
Hibiscus flowers have long been associated with spiritual awakening and growth, often used in meditation, prayer, and energy healing practices. They’ve even been linked to crown chakras, which represent spiritual enlightenment and connection with divinity – while numerology links purple hibiscus flowers to seven, which symbolize awakening and growth of consciousness.
Blueberry Smoothie is one of my favorite purple hibiscus cultivars, producing densely petaled flowers resembling large peonies in various shades of purple that bloom for long and fast-growing plants. Its medium green leaves boast three lobes with glossy surfaces for optimal visual aesthetic.
“Lavender Chiffon” is another beautiful variety that boasts exquisite double flowers. The petals flutter around its rich, lavender, or ballet pink petals, which deepen into strawberry pink in the center, and its creamy-white stamen provides ample fragrance throughout the bloom season. This cultivar boasts an upright growing habit and a long bloom season.
Fruit
Purple hues in hibiscus flowers may not be familiar, but they still occur in both cold-hardy and tropical species. Cold, hardy species tend to lean toward blue, while low varieties are usually more vibrant in hue.
Paraplu Violet is a Proven Winner variety with thin stems and smaller leaves in bright green that make a striking statement in any garden, yet its flowers stand out with their stunning shade of cool blue-violet. Blooming throughout the summer months, Paraplu Violet makes for a beautiful focal point in any yard or landscape design project.
The ‘Purple Magic’ cultivar offers another excellent choice, producing flowers with large and pinwheel-shaped blooms. Its light purple petals often feature white spots and buttery yellow-colored markings on their outer edges that attract pollinators to this flower. Although sterile, this variety still produces plenty of blooms throughout summer!
The ‘Bayou Rose’ hibiscus hybrid boasts stunning hyper-color flowers that open fully within two days to reveal a soft lavender interior with bright pink outer edges and ruffled petals, creating an eye-catching pillar-like plant that would look spectacular as part of a hedgerow or shrub bed in any landscape. It is an excellent selection for drought, heat, and cold tolerance.
Seeds
Purple is widely recognized as a color associated with wealth and royalty in plant life and is beloved by bees that fly around pollinating flowers in its presence. Hibiscus plants are easy to cultivate but require warm temperatures and sufficient space to accommodate their large blooms; container gardening could even allow these to remain outdoors during the winter.
The purple hibiscus plant, or Rose of Sharon, features a narrower growing habit than other varieties, making it suitable for gardens with limited spaces. Its exquisite violet-blue petals boast powdery purple hues with deep red throats that encase a white stamen and long-lasting, showy blooms.
Lavender Chiffon Hibiscus (Hibiscus laurifolius), with elegant double flowers that vary between ballet slipper pink and strawberry red as they age, was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit and made an ideal choice for warmer climates.
In Purple Hibiscus, Aunty Ifeoma gives Jaja purple hibiscus cuttings from Abba to plant in his hometown. When Aunty Ifeoma brings them home, Jaja observes their progress: the blooming buds represent growth and new life away from his abusive father; Jaja hopes to plant these cuttings when he finally gets out of prison; these purple flowers symbolize his hope for freedom.
