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Is this a weed?

JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
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I am not sure whether to remove this or not, is it a weed and if not what is it ?
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @JAYJARDIN It doesn't look like a weed to me. Appears to be semi or evergreen? Is it close to the ground? Hypericum maybe. If so it could be spreading by layering? Not sure about any of this but a start.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    Hi GardenerSuze

    It is evergreen and close to the ground- some sort of ground cover and it spreads wildly!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I'm thinking Hypericum calycinum but really not sure. Any thoughts anyone?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Definitely Hypericum, possibly androsaemon. 
    East Anglia
  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    I think it's more likely to be calycinum as it is ground cover and not a shrub.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    It's Hypericum, aka Rose of Sharon.  In my book it's definitely a weed.  It will continue to come back from seeds already scattered.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I agree with you @JAYJARDIN, hypericum calycinum. Not a weed in the right place. Good for covering dry shady banks. I had it in a previous garden.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes use it in those places where you just want to cover ground and other things won't grow.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited March 2023
    With horrible (to our family) brassy-yellow flowers.  It also reminds me of my Victorian, non-gardening relatives.  Who only grew rose of sharon, lily of the valley , and monbretia.  And never cut their grass.

    There are dozens of better ground-coverers.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Depends on your personal taste. I like yellow flowers.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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