'Lady Stanley' is an erect, deciduous shrub with ovate to diamond-shaped, lobed, toothed, dark green leaves and, from late summer into autumn, large, double, pink-flushed, white flowers with dark red centers. Flowers semi-double; petals white, shaded with rose and blotched with crimson at the base. An old variety, listed by Barron’s Nurseries, Elvaston, near Derby, in 1875 and perhaps raised by them.
Lady Stanley produced a naturally-occuring branch mutation back in 2001 that was introduced by Proven Winners as Sugar Tip (Hibiscus syriacus 'American Irene Scott'. For a beautiful hedge or driveway plant both Lady Stanley Rose of Sharon & it's mutation Sugar Tip Rose of Sharon together.