ScarletRose: ajtgirl please excuse my daughter view on these wonderful flowers. The thing I love about them is every year they come back with different shades of color. they do take over, they are nearly destructable so why fight them ours grew along the back of our motel where nothing grew. all up and down that long stretch of building 6 ft stalks with abundant flowers grew year after year. 2. When I was a child my mom and I and girl friends made lovely flower dolls out of them and also used a shrub rose called Rose of Sharon. This was in Pennsylvania. 3. all the beautiful farm gardens of ole had them in a row at the back of their big flower gardens....a "Kodak" momment for me when I found that 9 years ago I had them growing at our newly bought motel. sniff sniff