Solved Please help me identify and save this lovely bush!

Please help me identify this beautiful bush! It is pictured here in mid-July (on a rare hazy day when I could get out to do some clipping without being scorched!)

It suffered when we had that double-dose of heavy snow in early 2018 which we never usually have, the weight of it bent it right over as you can see.

Is it savable? Or should I just remove it? Advice please and thanks!

 

It looks like a very leggy Hypericum, hypericums tolerate hard pruning ( can be cut back to the ground ) and now is the time to do it if you don't like it how it is now. Look like its already growing from the base

 

Yes, agree with Perki
I hard prune mine every year ......keeps it bushy, floriferous and helps keep hypericum rust as bay

 

Totally agree! Just chop off all of the old stems at about 6 inches so they don't show.

 

Yep, definitely Hypericum aka St Johns Worth i pruned mine on monday, down to about 1ft from the ground. They're very vigorous & mine always shoots up to almost 5ft by the time its ready to flower in the summer

 

We have 4 and always cut them down.

 

Thank you everyone! That's exactly what I'll do :-)