Very pretty! I was lucky enough to have a mother that planted lots of hibiscus long before I got into tortoises, so we have three or four HUGE hibiscus plants. We have one that color, and then one that's kind of a burgundy. My favorite has always been the white one with red streaks
With flowers so pretty, it's hard to give them up as tortoise food sometimes.
I bought two cold hardy ones this year for 7 bucks each. Getting great flowers from the one I didn't accidentally chop in half. The sad thing, the flowers last one day. If you have a great green thumb, that's the best time to buy, or a friend of a friend buys the flowers that are almost dead, cheap and then nurses them back in no time. I don't have a green thumb.
That looks like one of the "hardy" variety hibiscus. I just love them. They will die back to the ground in the winter, but they come back better and stronger in the spring. And the flowers!!! Wow!!
You have it all wrong! It's a great thing they only last a day, because that way you get to enjoy them for that one day and then the next day you don't feel bad about feeding them to the tortoises.