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Dear All,
Am a new gardener having inherited a beautiful garden and this
will be the first of many posts i'm sure.
I have a large bush which is tagged Hypericum, is this St Johns Wort or are
there varities of Hypericum? It is a large bush
about 2 metres high and wide.
I assumed StJohns Wort to be a smallish herb? I have some herbs one of which
I thought was StJohns Wort, it has 5 petalled flowers though its stems
branch like a buttercups, it does not have the perforations however like
i've read it should have. The large bush does... can anyone help?

Hypericon is the genus. There are several cultivated varieties: the one
you have sounds like H. androsæmum or H. inodorum.

A low ground-covering relative is Rose of Sharon, H. calycinum.

Wild things:

The St. John's wort you have described is H. perforatum, which grows in
clumps of upright stems with small yellow five-petalled star-shaped
flowers. (About 12" - 18")

Also: Beautiful St. John's Wort; Bog St. John's Wort; Creeping St.
John's Wort; Hairy St. John's Wort; Mountain St. John's Wort;
Narrow-leaved St. John's Wort; Square-stalked St. John's Wort; Wavy St.
John's Wort; and a few others which don't seem to have common names, and
one or two more which are hybrids of others.

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