Can anyone tell me what this plant is it got yellow flowers in the summer

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  January 2021

  Looks like it might be a Hypericum. Bright golden yellow flowers in the summer and the leaves have a strong lemony smell?

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• Rubytoo Posts: 1,630

  January 2021

  I think it is too as Lizzie27 said.
  It is funny but I never considered it smelled lemony, there is a smell and I like it, but just goes to show I never thought about what the familiar pong was. Now I will have to go out and smell it, and it isn't nice outside at the moment. So it will bug me until I do
  
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  January 2021

  There are lots of varieties of Hypericum, but all have more or less the same requirements and care, so they're easy plants. 
  I dislike them intensely - apart from when they have their berries. The yellow flowers are so garish.
  I've never noticed the smell - but I have a very poor sense of smell which is probably the reason.

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  January 2021

  Nothing wrong with garish 

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• SophieK Posts: 244

  January 2021

  I was wondering whether it's because the poster, like me, does not like yellow flowers (don't ask me why, I like yellow but not in flowers except for Achillea) That shrub would be donated quickly if it were in my garden

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