I have been offline for a while, but here is a shot of a Hibiscus
moscheutos from this afternoon. This is the common hardy herbaceous
kind of Hibiscus, and this guy is maybe 4-years from seed. I measured
this particular flower at 9-in across.

These flowers are usually eaten to shreds by japanese beatles, but for
whatever reason, this has been a remarkably tough year for those pests
around here, and therefore a particularly good year for the H.
moscheutos.

Canon 16-35mm f2.8L @ 30mm; ISO-100; f6.3; 1/800-sec

JD