Bumping up so someone who knows about pruning hibiscus will see it.

After your last free as any pruning will help put on new growth which if you get a freeze will be killed. Here in this area we usually use Valentines day as our guide line.

Thank you, Wally, that does make good sense.

Rusty

Oh be careful, and please wait at least some weeks as Wally says. The Texans are in my opinion way too obsessed on tidying up to early in their gardens in the winter.

Although there is a mild climate here, there are large temperature fluctuations and a lot of plants will benefit greatly if you wait to tidy up around the plants a few weeks more.

I speak from experience, and see big differences between sheltered plants and non sheltered plants. I mostly use burlap and garden fleece on plants i planted last summer as Foxtail Ferns, Variegated Gingers and Elephant Ears. Not to mention how to important to cover up newly planted Lime, Lemontrees, Powderpuff shrubs and Hibiscus. You can see more about it here.