What Is a Hibiscus Festival?
The hibiscus flower is a tropical flower that blooms for most of the year in warmer climates, but typically emerges in the spring and is particularly vibrant and fragrant in the heat of the summer. Some of the earliest examples of hibiscus festival events were designed to celebrate the beauty of the blooms and to welcome the change of seasons. Indigenous peoples and early settlers all over the world hosted community gatherings for such things as weather shifts and seasonal changes, and the first hibiscus festivals fit within this model.
The hibiscus flower is a tropical flower that blooms for most of the year in warmer climates, but typically emerges in the spring and is particularly vibrant and fragrant in the heat of the summer. Some of the earliest examples of hibiscus festival events were designed to celebrate the beauty of the blooms and to welcome the change of seasons. Indigenous peoples and early settlers all over the world hosted community gatherings for such things as weather shifts and seasonal changes, and the first hibiscus festivals fit within this model.