Lizzie Crawshaw writes
DaveP wrote:

On Aug 30, 9:26*am, Exhausted wrote:
Any idea what this plant is, I have enclosed links to a close up and
full shot
Thanks
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/timg263....imageshack.us
/i/timg2632.jpg/

Hibiscus syriacus 'Hamabo'.

Lol, I either need new glasses or a gardening book (sidles out of urg
with red face)

Don't, you were dead right as to family - Hibiscus is in the mallow
family, and you picked up on the characteristic shape of the flower and
that 'pillar' thing in the middle.
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Kay