Creeping St Johns Wort – Hypericum Calycinum – 6 Pack Of Pint Pots

St John’s Wort, Hypericum calycinum, sometimes called Aaron’s Beard, is a spreading perennial groundcover plant that produces very unique and beautiful saucer-shape yellow flowers with bushy center stamens with reddish anthers. The flowers appear singly or in groups of 2 or 3 and cover the lush plant in summer. Oval to oblong leaves (to 4″ long) are rich green in sun but are a lighter, yellowish green in shade. This species has been used since ancient times in the treatment of wounds and was apparently gathered and burned to ward off evil spirits on the eve of St. John’s Day, thus giving rise to the genus common name of St. John’s Wort.

Allan Armitage calls this “one of the finest groundcover plants available!”

St John’s Wort is easy to grow and maintain in a wide range of conditions. It flourishes in most any average, moist to dry well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. It really thrives on sandy soils in full sun. The plant is less floriferous in part shade. In warm winter climates the plant will be evergreen. It usually dies to the ground or suffers some tip dieback in cold winter climates, but blooms on new growth and comes back nicely each spring. In areas where it does not die in winter, shear or mow plants in late winter or early spring every 2-3 years to renew and induce new growth. 

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