Now that our Hibiscus syriacus, or Rose-of Sharon, is in full bloom, I'm afraid that the flowers are much pinker than I remembered. They are lovely, and more numeroous than ever, 
but not quite the shade of lavender that would match my eponymous hat. However, I did notice that the spent blooms, which fall in profusion and are cigar-butt shaped, thus resembling nothing so much as the detritus from a stogie-lover's convention, do have a purplish cast. Purplish-greyish. At least they don't have that old-cigar stink.
I thought I should put a link to Rose-of-Sharon under "free patterns," and so it is done.
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