This happy hibiscus looks positively lascivious and practically pornographic when viewed up close and personal. Violating a plant’s privacy in such a manner always makes me blush. Flowers often border on the obscene, the way they put their reproductive efforts right on display for all the world to see – the pollination, the protruding seed pods, the often-flamboyant and outright showy dispersal of said seed – it’s like some pretty porn flick extended over several tantalizingly long weeks or months. This is masterful edging, leaving the rest of us panting like amateurs.
We can only aspire.
