Can you ID this blueish flower in a front garden?

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Is it the Blue Chiffon® rose of Sharon Hibiscus syriacus? A quick Google suggests it might be...
I've uploaded a smaller picture and this is where I seem a bit mad as the close up is more mauve than blue but collectively as I pass on my bike this plant seems blue... I don't know! Maybe because it's placed next to red plants so the eyes play tricks.

Is it Mallow - Lavatera?

Hibiscus?

Yep lavatera

Glorious in bloom, impossible to kill, grows like Jack's beanstalk :)

It definitely looks like a hibiscus syriacus to me. Mine is in flower now, and they tend to be later bloomers so it’s the right time. The blue hibiscuses are properly blue though and this seems more lilac. There are different shades though. I have a pink one called Aphrodite.

I must say it is very hardy throughout the drought, I passed today and it looks just as good, those photos were taken a few weeks back.

It's not lavatera. Yes op it's rose of Sharon (hardy hibiscus).

def hibiscus syriacus

quite draught resistant but looks like dead twigs in the winter months.

Definitely hibiscus not lavetera - I have both in the garden in flower right now.

I have a hibiscus similar to this. The flowers start lilac and then go blue when they die off, so that could explain the variation in colour.

It's hibiscus, we have one

It is 100% a hibiscus - one of my favourite flowers

Definitely hibiscus, there’s one in a my neighbour’s garden.

I think it’s Hibiscus.

It's hardy hisbiscus, h.syriacus, which is in the mallow family so related to lavatera.

Another vote for hibiscus.

But "Rose of Sharon" is hypericum to me. Quite different, and why common names are often confusing.

Hibiscus - it’s in the same family as Mallow and Lavatera, hence the confusion.

The colour is probably from anthocyanins, which are what are behind all those flowers which straddle the pink/red/purple/blue divide like Lungwort, cornflower.

yep, funnily enough
Rose of Sharon is hypericum to me too. From my mother, welsh amateur gardener born in the 1920s