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Hibiscus World, as the name implies, is a hibiscus specialist and grower as well as a qualified horticulturists, which caters to both the wholesale and retail trade. It is one of the largest hibiscus specialist growers featuring one of the greatest ranges of hibiscus ever offered for sale. They are importers and exporters (national and international) with nearly 30 years of hibiscus experience. Patricia and Christopher Noble who own the two Hibiscus World nurseries are well know as being"obsessed with hibiscus".

Hibiscus World caters to both the public and trade (landscapers, retail nurseries, garden centers, other wholesale nurseries) Australia wide, providing same week delivery on mail order service. They culture all forms of hibiscus from cutting grown to grafted plants in liners (tube stock), pots , advanced containers, topiary standards, hanging baskets. They also cater to special orders and contract growers and accept credit card payment.

Wholesale Nursery:
61 Cockatoo Court Caboolture 4510
Queensland, Australia
Tel. +61 7 54 951 256
Fax. +61 7 54 957 296
E-mail: hibiskus@bigpond.com
Web: http://www.hibiscus.tv
Web: http://www.hibiscusworld.com.au

Retail Nursery:
166 Deception Bay Road
Deception Bay 4508
Queensland Australia
Tel. +61 7 3888 6363
Fax. + 61 7 3888 6631

Hibiscus World is a proud member of the nursery associations in Australia (QNIA, NIAA & NGIA) and the leading hibiscus societies of the world including the International Hibiscus Society, American Hibiscus Society and Australian Hibiscus Society (past President and life time member of the latter). They are also recognized importers and exporters, qualified horticulturists with Associate Diploma of Horticultural and Applied Science and sanctioned pest inspectors. They have been involved with publishers, having submitted scientific hibiscus data for various books and magazines and written articles on hibiscus for publication and distribution. They have been invited for appearance on national television, radio shows, been interviewed for personal profiles in gardening publications and been an invited speaker at business luncheons lecturing on marketing and application of successful business management skills.

Hibiscus World caters to Garden Clubs and activity groups at their retail nursery, where for the day, members of these organizations enjoy hibiscus talks and demonstrations, barbeque lunches and a walks through the ever blooming display gardens.

Christopher Nobel is currently the recognized International Hibiscus Registrar (over 7,800 cultivars listed). He is responsible for the management of hundreds of mass bloom displays at public venues like shopping centers and garden shows through out Australia. His nurseries utilize "state of the art" production management tools and skills and the most modern potting and grafting machines. All plants are grown pathogen free and presented in color coordinated pots. They produce and print tailor made pictorial labels and barcodes for marketing of their products, providing a standard of quality that they are proud to put their name on.

Some of the latest Hibiscus World seedling releases from abroad are:

Tigerama - recently awarded the American Hibiscus Societies HOTY, Hibiscus Of The Year, award for the year 2001. It is a wonderful upright grower with large single 7 to 8 inch bloom with a deep crimson eye, coffee brown body and tones of radiating red.

Capistrano - the American Hibiscus Society HOTY winner for the year 2000, it is a strong bushy plant and heavy bloomer with heavy textured, large single 8 to 10 inch blooms in shades of pink.

Some of their latest Australian seedling releases are:

Pink Bouquet - bred by Allan Little, which is a good strong growing, full double bloom of about 6 to 7 inches with contrasting light and dark pink petals - a truly unique beauty.

Little Santa - bred by Richard Mansbridge, which is a strong upright grower, ideal for pot culture or planting in the garden. It is an extremely good bloomer, with a miniature to medium sized single bloom of 4 to 6 inches dressed in a deep rosy red with a pure white border.

Emerald Isle - bred by Peter Van Duyn, is a strong busy grower and very prolific bloomer that has a very large, 8 to 10", single bloom with a dark red eye and petals in a unique mustard color which exhibits hints of green as it ages.

Hibiscus World is truly a hibiscus specialist in every sense of the term. They grow all the best Australian native and deciduous hibiscus and many other hibiscus family species from around the world. The retail nursery markets it very own famous hibiscus food. Call in and try some on your plants, you will be amazed at the difference.

Also, please do visit Hibiscus World's award winning, recently revamped web site http://www.hibiscus.tv; enter the Photo Album and revel in the many hundreds of high quality photos of hibiscus blooms with detailed information about each.