Thank you Toni. This plant did not have one leaf left on it. I was shocked to see it pull through!!!

No need to start a new thread, just post it in this one, as a follow-up. Just to clarify - you are NOT able to attach (physically) more than one picture in a post. You can do what carol did and reference a picture as many times as you want if it is stored elsewhere (the one above is on photobucket).

Yes, it is Rose of Sharon. Another name for it (besides the proper name of Hibiscus syriacus) is Althea. This was the name I always heard growing up, many years ago. I love them and have always acquired at least one everywhere I have lived. When I see a color I don't have, I always ask for seeds. They are easy to grow and very pretty, I think. You can prune them to any size you want, too, in early spring before they leaf out and bloom. Probably afterwards, too!

I wish I had Easy Going, it looks like a beauty, but my yellow has no peach, amber or pink veining or undertones. It's egg-yolk yellow and simply pales to lemon-cream with age. My main regret is that it blows too quickly to a very open, unattractive form. This describes my 'Easy Going'. Actually "the light green shiny foliage" comment makes me lean towards EG, also the growth habit of your standard. Livin Easy, Easy Going, and the offspring Hot Cocoa have very distinctive foliage, prickles, canes, and growth habit. What makes ID trickier in your case that you are in Europe, where there are cultivars we don't have here. Easy Going and Livin Easy are very popular as standards here--whether or not that is true in France, I have no idea. Usually though standard roses, which are much more expensive than the regular ones, are less apt to be an obscure variety because of the extra expense. So look at very common cultivars. Have you looked at Sunsprite and Sunflare? Might also be one of those. Easy Going foliage: