Thanks everyone. I do hope it is real. Hibiscus lavender beauty is close but as Jim says the stigma is different (is it possible for it to be cut down for photographic style?). Those photos by Sharon Web are stunning Edd!
Wow Flowerchild The wealth of knowledge on this site NEVER ceases to amaze me . I suppose its a case of a hundred gardening heads being better than one.
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It doesn't look real does it. My knowledge of tender exotica is almost non-existent, sorry
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lavender Beauty for sure.
I thought it might be a Hibiscus but the stigma looked wrong.
Thanks everyone. I do hope it is real. Hibiscus lavender beauty is close but as Jim says the stigma is different (is it possible for it to be cut down for photographic style?). Those photos by Sharon Web are stunning Edd!
I agree about the stigma, I have seen quite a few Hibiscuses [ hibisci ? ] in the Carribean and they all have the long Stigma.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It is Alyogyne huegelii. This is an Australian genus in the same family as Hibiscus, the Malvaceae. It's also named Blue Hibiscus and Lilac Hibiscus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyogyne_huegelii
Well done Flowerchild. You're right.
Wow Flowerchild
The wealth of knowledge on this site NEVER ceases to amaze me 

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Thanks SO much Flowerchild, I'm so glad I asked the question!
Here are a few more of the same I have now googled!
Oh my goodness - also seen or sale on Ebay!!! Think I should just settle with my simpler Hibiscus Bluebird though for now!