Hello We have moved for the last time(hopefully. The previous owners, a older English couple had many, many wonderful plants of which I can only ID about .25%. Thanks in advance for any help members can give me. My first post is of a multi stemmed flowering bush. I thought it might be a Rose of Sharon but not convinced after looking it up on the net. This is a well established specimen. It has about 20 stems running fairly straight up to about 4.5 feet with about 3 or 4 new suckers coming up. The stems have very fine thorns that sting like the dickens. Large fragrant flowers.