What is this shrub?

Found in my mums garden! Seems to have migrated over from next door. Beautiful yellow flowers insects seem to love. Would like to know what it is and whether I can get a cutting!

 

Hypericum of some kind.

 

They are pretty easy shrubs to take cuttings from; try getting a few heal cuttings, popping in a pot and keep watered and they should root in a few weeks.
Is your neighbours shrub a tall variety?

 

Thanks both. Yes it's my mum's neighbour and theirs is pretty tall, a good 2M tall. Beautiful! By "heal cutting" what do you mean M? I'm not familiar with that term!

 

A heel cutting (sorry, it was a typo in my previous post) is where the cutting you take from the plant includes a piece of the older wood. Here is an image of a heel cutting:



As you can see the cutting is pulled away from the main branch with a strip of the main (older) branch attached. So you should end up with a piece with an end looking like this:



Does that help?

 

Yes, thank you very much, espesh for the pic explanation! I'll be seeing her again in a few weeks so will attempt a cut then.

Btw Hypericum - is the common name St John's Wort for all varieties?

 

Hi Ben,
The most common one is called " Rose of Sharon ".
I may be wrong but I think "St Johns Wort" only applies to the smaller ones derived from the wild ones.