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What is this yellow flowering bush.
Keith Chegwin
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I have a yellow annual flowering bush with flowers that last for weeks. Its a bit like a beach sunflower but grows much taller and is currently 6ft and spreading well. Can anyone identify it.
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Hi Keith
Possibly a coropsis
In the sticks near Peterborough
Now I would say it was one of the Helianthus tribe, if it is 6 feet tall.
Yes, that is tall for a coropsis
In the sticks near Peterborough
Agree with Berghill, if that tall probably a Helianthus.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Looks like Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' to me.
Do you think when Keith said annual he means it comes every year?
I was looking for an annual.
I had realised that 'bush' didn't mean shrub
Lemon Queen seems very likely
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes it flowers every year.
That's a perennial Keith.
Gardenspeak; annuals flower seed then die in one season, perennials live for years and come back and flower each summer
I think Liriodendron is probably right, definitely a Helianthus, and most likely Lemon Queen
In the sticks near Peterborough
....what I've always called sunflowers! The sort of plant that neighbours pass on to each other to plant at the back of a border. They look good with michaelmas daisiers which are in bloom right now too.
Thanks for the info. The plant is my elderly mothers and yellow is her favorite colour. I think I may take a root and grow it my garden as it looks spectacular in a large border setting.