Rose of Sharon

You know it is funny but when we lived in New York I heard my wife say that there was one plant she had always wanted, that was a Gardenia.
Well I bought a Gardenia, as a matter of fact I bought several. We had to leave them in the pots since we didn't have a yard and they all died eventually. No I didn't buy them all at the same time, this was over a period of years.

Now we have a big yard and 4 or 5 sizable Gardenia bushes growing on the property (more on those in a few days) but every time we go to a nursery now there seems to be another plant she sees that she has always wanted one of.
The latest is this Rose of Sharon, which we are going to put in the ground tomorrow. This is not is fact a rose at all, it is a Hibiscus or more accurately it is a Hibiscus Syriacus. It is rather nice looking and should make a good addition to the garden.