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Help identifying plant, please!
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Posted by goldpianogarden z8b, S.E. GA (My Page) on Mon, Nov 1, 04 at 11:23
I have a bush that came up volunteer, maybe 2 years ago, in the point where my driveway and sidewalk meet. It has very narrow leaves, like phlox has (which doesn't grow here)or rosemary, and is smothered with yellow blooms almost year-round. It's not my typical kind of plant to grow, and I continually have to prune it back off the sidewalk, but it's so carefree and everblooming that I never got rid of it. It's about 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide. It would be wider, but I have to keep chopping it back so we can walk past it on the sidewalk. Any ideas? Link to photo album with 3 pics of this yellow-blooming plant in it:
http://community.webshots.com/album/209093392pKggFF
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RE: Help identifying plant, please!
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| Looks like saint john's wort, botanical name hypericum.Not for sure which species,there are several, but my guess would be hypericum prolificum linnaeus. |
RE: Help identifying plant, please!
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| Barry, I just checked out the rest of your pics and all I can say is WOW...what a beautiful place you have!! Where in South Georgia do you live? How do your Mules hold up during the winter? Thanks |
RE: Help identifying plant, please!
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| Can't remember if I responded to you privately or not, raymikematt. I live in Brunswick, and the mules hold up great. Never phased at all. I grow several queens, majesty palms, chamaedoreas, dypsis, and many, many others (about 200 total), but I wrap many of them as the temperature dips to certain temps (i.e., some have to be wrapped at 30*, some at 28*, some at 26*, etc.). I started out collecting palms, then tropicals, but now my interest has turned mostly toward succulents. I bought every one I could get my hands on this past year. I'm anxious now to see how they winter. |
RE: Help identifying plant, please!
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| There are so many yellow wildflowers & photo IDs are tough. The flowers sure look like hypericum, but the leaves don't quite, and it seems more upright than the StJ'sW that I know, though as JerrieDee says there are many kinds. Stylosanthes biflora, Euphorbia esula, Monarda punctata might be contenders too. Or some kind of Sundrops? |
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