We joke at work about having the phone message say If you are calling with a Hibiscus question, press 1. If you need anything else, press 2. These plants do well here for the summer, most of the problems come with trying to winter them. If they could be loved as an annual, then discarded with the appearance of cold weather, everyone would be happier. The problem seems to be economic.
Most people believe a woody plant is too large an investment to be treated as an annual.
Unless they buy one the size of a tree, most cost in the same range as dinner at a good restaurant. So, if a woody Hibiscus is too much to treat as an annual, let s look at some tropical perennials that will serve us well as container or bedding annuals and cost the same as a cutting grown geranium. Geraniums have been used just about as long as they have been known in cultivation. They are perennial in warm climates. Until rather recent developments in seed varieties, they were always produced from cuttings.