Rose of Sharon, hypericum - large ones pain in the…er …. garden. Tiny ones quite pretty. Frequently found in commercial planting schemes as it covers a large area quickly.
Have been trying to eradicate it from our garden for 17 years since we moved in here, not succeeded yet.
Common name Tutsan (from French, all healthy. Used medicinally and, I believe, as a preservative for the paper of old books.
'A tincture made from this plant, as well as that made from the perforate St. John's Wort, has been used with success to cure melancholia, and its allied forms of insanity(!)
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St John's Wort - I think - will try and find out which one, but some one on here is bound to know and will pop up soon.
Rose of Sharon, hypericum - large ones pain in the…er …. garden. Tiny ones quite pretty. Frequently found in commercial planting schemes as it covers a large area quickly.
Have been trying to eradicate it from our garden for 17 years since we moved in here, not succeeded yet.
Might be hypericum androsaemum. Google it and see if it matches your plant.
Yes, as Forester says H. androsaemum.
Rose of Sharon and St John's Wort seem to be used indiscriminately to cover all umpteen species of hypericum to the confusion of all
In the sticks near Peterborough
Common name Tutsan (from French, all healthy. Used medicinally and, I believe, as a preservative for the paper of old books.
'A tincture made from this plant, as well as that made from the perforate St. John's Wort, has been used with success to cure melancholia, and its allied forms of insanity(!)
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