does anyone know, please, which hypericum this is? it's a gift from the birds, going mad in the shade under a tree, and currently has flowers AND berries on and I'm having trouble identifying exactly what it is.
Thank you - certainly looks close. The thing that's causing me problems in tying it down is that when I read the plant summary info this one, for example, says it spreads by seed. The mound that has appeared in a corner of my garden appears to be spreading by sending out roots. Have lots of little plantlets that, when you dig them out, seem to be linked to the parent. Is that normal?
Will certainly have to keep an eye on it - looks like it's a bit of a thug.
No, that doesn't sound like Tutsan, they are individual small shrubs. The flowers aren't big enough for H. calycinum which does spread like that so I don't know what you've got there.
Judging by the growth spurt this year...a triffid ! It is about 3 foot high and the main mound is about 5 foot wide. Where you can see the arrows - these are new shoots and the furthest one is about 10 foot away (not in shot). When I dug one up for a neighbour this morning it was about 6 foot from the main plant - but had roots heading back to "momma".
Looking at your photo from far, it looks like you may have two types of Hypericums growing there. The central more upright clump to the left looks like Hypericum Inodorum and the right to it and towards the front looks more like Hypricum Calycinum. Very strange, are the leaves and flowers totally identical?
Thank you all for trying to help. I am wondering if some of you have a "candid camera" at the end of my garden though...I've been clambering through the Foxgloves and swinging off a low branch of my Rowan tree (it's a bit overgrown, to get to that corner).
I've just lifted leaves and poked around and it looks like there are 9 individual plants. They all look they same. Would assume they are as I never planted any of them and, as mentioned earlier, they all appear to be growing from runners the main plant is sending out.
It looks nice - but I'll have to hack some of it out when it's finished as it's bullying Auriculas, Giant Lily of the Valley and Hostas.
This is what happens when you turn your back on a shady corner for a few minutes.
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the most likely present from birds is Hypericum androsaemum, the native Tutsan.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you - certainly looks close. The thing that's causing me problems in tying it down is that when I read the plant summary info this one, for example, says it spreads by seed. The mound that has appeared in a corner of my garden appears to be spreading by sending out roots. Have lots of little plantlets that, when you dig them out, seem to be linked to the parent. Is that normal?
Will certainly have to keep an eye on it - looks like it's a bit of a thug.
No, that doesn't sound like Tutsan, they are individual small shrubs. The flowers aren't big enough for H. calycinum which does spread like that so I don't know what you've got there.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Possibly a hybrid?
Judging by the growth spurt this year...a triffid ! It is about 3 foot high and the main mound is about 5 foot wide. Where you can see the arrows - these are new shoots and the furthest one is about 10 foot away (not in shot). When I dug one up for a neighbour this morning it was about 6 foot from the main plant - but had roots heading back to "momma".
Looking at your photo from far, it looks like you may have two types of Hypericums growing there. The central more upright clump to the left looks like Hypericum Inodorum and the right to it and towards the front looks more like Hypricum Calycinum. Very strange, are the leaves and flowers totally identical?
Thank you all for trying to help. I am wondering if some of you have a "candid camera" at the end of my garden though...I've been clambering through the Foxgloves and swinging off a low branch of my Rowan tree (it's a bit overgrown, to get to that corner).
I've just lifted leaves and poked around and it looks like there are 9 individual plants. They all look they same. Would assume they are as I never planted any of them and, as mentioned earlier, they all appear to be growing from runners the main plant is sending out.
It looks nice - but I'll have to hack some of it out when it's finished as it's bullying Auriculas, Giant Lily of the Valley and Hostas.
This is what happens when you turn your back on a shady corner for a few minutes.