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  1. islayhawk

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    Hi Could anyone identify this plant that is growing in a friends garden

    yellow shrub.jpg
     
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    Don't take my word for it (I'm often wrong), but it looks to me like St John's Wort.
     
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    Looks like yellow loosestrife, Lysimachia punctata, to me.
     
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      Me too! Got a huge clump of it here.
       
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        Me too I like it as it comes up every year and fills gaps.
         
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