Hibiscus

In addition to the Ash tree that we planted in our front yard, we have two smaller shrub trees as well. Until this week-end, we had no idea what they were. Just last week, one of them started to bloom these beautiful purple flowers. That's when we found out that we have an hibiscus! I had no idea that these could even grow in Colorado with our desert-like climate. Though since it gets direct sun, with temps up to the 100s in the past couple of weeks, the flowers wilt easily and fall creating beautiful pools of purple around the tree.