Mea Culpa

This is a   Hibiscus coccineus  

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=hico2 

The common name I use for it is Texas Star. 

I brought the seeds up from our Napa CA garden

and it does grow here.

Except the deer absolutely love it.  Rats! 

 Even though I had it caged,

 the baby deer found a way to sample it

several times last summer,

and it never bloomed at all. 

This photo is from a few years ago. 

The mea culpa:

I set up a separate e-mail account for for this blog,

and then completely forgot about it, until lately.

Oh my.

There were several e-mails on it

 from people who had stopped by.

  Oh dear.

I've changed the contact e-mail address

to my regular e-mail  address now.

It won't happen again, I promise.

OK then ~Thanks.