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Would anyone be able to identify this succulent? Just like this plant I live right on the coastline. Would it be possible for me to grow it in my front garden?
any help or advice appreciated. 
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I'm terrible with succulents, but maybe the yellow-flowered one is Euphorbia myrsinites. The one with the needle-like leaves is Lampranthus.
Yep Euphorbia Myrsinites a low growing Euphorbia, quite happy growing anywhere nice and sunny.
I was just reading about and admiring this plant yesterday on a website! They called it Euphorbia with common names of Gopher Plant and Silver spurge. They said it grows to about 2' high and 5' wide. They said it can be toxic to dogs and cats if eaten.
This informative article says it spreads its seeds readily in your garden unless pruned before it sets seeds: http://www.ehow.com/info_8288300_euphorbia-rigida-gopher-plants.html So it may tend to be somewhat invasive if left to its own devices.
I don't know of it being invasive in the UK, Iv certainly not found this. Some Euphorbias can spread around but I don't think this one does.
I only get an odd seedling appearing from mine which is cut right back after flowering.
That's good to hear, Joyce21. Their comment about "bursting" seed pods worried me a bit. Wouldn't want the seeds to blow into the neighbor's yard which butts up to the back of this row of photinias in the pic below.
I really like the look of this plant, want something low like this and have a raised bed along my driveway where a long bank of chartreuse/yellow color would be very nice. I'm expressly wanting yellow to play off the row of red-tip photinia right beside the bed. Plus in Texas, whatever I plant must tolerate triple-digit heat sometimes as well as some direct sun at the right-most end of the bed. Here's a photo of the raised bed taken last year, before lowering the photinias to 4' in height. The photinias were way too tall last year and barely had any red on them. Very mature shrubs. They should red out nicely for me now after my hard pruning and are short enough for me to be able to prune them regularly to promote their redding out more. That is a white Abelia shrub at the left end of the raised bed.
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