Two unnamed hibiscus in their second season and doing well. They had a bit of a tangle with spider mites over the winter but otherwise did okay, and probably would have bloomed longer if I had kept them under grow lights instead of an east-facing window.
They have achieved the necessary criteria for overwintering: unique beauty without being too much of a pain to deal with.
Black Eyed Susan vine, which I’ve read ‘treat as an annual’ virtually everywhere, leapt through the winter months, bloomed the whole time, and is still blooming. Poor little dude doesn’t know he’s supposed to be dead. I’m not telling him.
Last year’s grim overwintering failures were cordyline and mandevilla, which had the absolute nerve to drop dead–in April. At the finish line. Sheesh.