The pink one was also nicked, from the Courthouse of South Västerbotten where Bosse had his first practice as a lawyer.
Since then the plants have followed Bosse from Lycksele to Piteå in 1975 and down to the island of Gotland and Visby in 1976. In 1977 Bosse moved to Stockholm. The orange Hibiscus got to accompany Bosse to many different homes. In 1978 for example, it moved in with 6 people and a cat in a collective at Högbergsgatan where it stayed in the common living room on a pedestal. When Bosse was employed at The Supreme Court in Stockholm´s Old Town in 1977 he brought the pink Hibiscus to his office window. It probably never was truly happy there as it didn´t blossom very often. In the 1980s Bosse moved to a new place with his partner Pelle and they have been sharing it since then. Although Bosse has always been the one with the green fingers.
In 2004 Bosse and Pelle left Stockholm to live on the countryside in Österlen, Southern Sweden. Both of the two plants got to move with them. The pink one seems happier nowadays and gets lots of flowers all the time. One day Pelle counted 30 flowers on one of the trees at the same time! Since 1967 when Bosse got these Hibiscus trees he has become a true plant enthusiast. The small baby plants now for sale at the Vintage Plant market was cut in 2005 and has stayed in Bosse´s lush greenhouse since then. He admits they were a bit neglected until August 2006 when they were given new pots and soil.
23 September 2006.
