It didn’t take long for Sandra and Wally Barr to become enmeshed in a love affair with the hibiscus after the Rev. Robert Gerlich gathered a group of fanciers two decades ago. Her late husband had ...

Sandra Barr sat at her breakfast table one morning, looking out into her garden. She watched, mesmerized, as a bud on one of her many hybrid hibiscus plants began to unfurl. “Right then and there, I ...