QNS, Wow, lots of great pictures! Thanks. I'm impressed with all you've finished.
Yes, that sure looks like a double Rose of Sharon to me too. I have double white, and of the pinkish/lavender color that SBG photographed, I have singles. I have some single blues too. They grow like weeds. If you don't trim the branches, the flowers are good at producing seeds, they drop, and baby RofS's pop up around the parent. My husband doesn't like to prune, and he doesn't like to weed (in case the weed will develop pretty wild flowers)... so we have a crazy yard. Last year I gave away dozens of baby RofSs to people at work.