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What is this golden-flowered plant?

EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
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Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Afraid I don't know,but it's lovely, would like some,great contrast with the purple
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Lysymachia punctata or yellow loosestrife

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/10634/Lysimachia-punctata-L/Details 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Thanks, @Obelixx. It has appeared over the garden and I’ve been pulling it out where I don’t want it. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's fine if you like it but it can still be a thug so keep an eye on it.

    It has a white flowered relative which is, in my opinion, much more attractive but can also get too happy - https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/10629/Lysimachia-clethroides/Details and there is a purple flowered version called Beaujolais which is short lived and much less invasive - https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/137440/i-Lysimachia-atropurpurea-i-Beaujolais/Details 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    And whatever you do NEVER EVER plant L. Firecracker. We spent 20 years trying to remove it from our last garden without succeeding.
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    The previous owners of our garden went a bit mad with crocosmia lucifer and a pink hardy geranium, not sure which one. The crocosmia is down to one big clump now, which I don’t mind, but the geraniums just keep reappearing somewhere else, when I think I’ve dug it out.  
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    I have a variegated form called L. Alexander, which is not at all invasive with me, unlike L. Firecracker, but I did manage to get rid of that with glyphosate.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    That’s lovely! Why do I not have something pretty running riot in my garden, instead of boring stuff? Trip to the garden centre needed.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Pity you are not near us, it is growing wild in the hedgerow along our lane.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I hate that brash, yellow loosestrife, but it was useful at my last house as it was one of the  few things the rabbits didn't eat. I'd happily have traded with them to leave all the other plants and eaten that though  ;)
    It grows in hedgerows round here too. 

    Firecracker is a nuisance, without doubt, though. 
    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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