Golden Rule St. John’s Wort – Quart Container

Description

Petite and colorful new Hypericum! Shady gardens are typically hard spots to landscape, especially if you want anything with bright-colored leaves. Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Golden Rule® St. John’s Wort (Hypericum calycinum ‘NCHCI’) solves that problem and many others! The oval leaves emerge soft orange and buttery yellow before turning to chartreuse-green until fall!

All summer, enjoy the same sunshine yellow blossoms that bees and butterflies adore! Lighting up the shade with their radiance, the foliage holds its own against this display and there is no gloomy dappled shade that won’t benefit! Each darling whirled yellow flower has a shower of golden sparks erupting from its center!

Staying that chartreuse green for the rest of the growing season, this flowering ornamental plant is ideal for small gardens! St. John’s Wort makes itself right at home, even spreading out a little to form small colonies! Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 5 to 8 and grows into a tidy and space-saving 12 – 18 Inches tall and 12 – 24 Inches wide.

St. John’s Wort is also a beneficial herb and has long been used to relieve everything from anxiety and depression to inflammation. While we don’t recommend using landscaping Hypericum medicinally, just the sunny blooms, vibrant color, and the sheer amount of butterflies that arrive are sure to lift your spirits!

Planting and Application:

This is an excellent groundcover subshrub for shady areas and wilderness gardens! Line the back of your property without worry that deer will come knocking! Only swarms of native bees, beneficial insects, and butterflies! St. John’s Wort fits right into your landscape! Both large and small gardens, containers and planters, and bridge the transition between the yard and the woods, taming the wildness and filling an area with little rays of sunshine!

Golden Rule® St John’s Wort’s short, spreading nature is great when used as the front of a shady border. You could also let it ramble between other plants in the bed – it gets so thick it will choke out weeds. Though it takes the sun, too much will be hard on the leaves and they may burn, so choose your site carefully.

For xeric sites and Rock Gardens in the dappled shade, Golden Rule® lights up hard to mow hillsides, as erosion control on streambanks and slopes. Lovely edging en masse and facer plants, this brightly colored flowering shrub adds pops of color anywhere in the landscape! Mixed-shrub borders, the back garden bed, and informal hedges are perfect spots for St. John’s Wort to roam! Alternately, Golden Rule® brings a polite ‘scruffiness’ to a formal planting bed as well as fitting in perfectly in informal country borders.

• Yellow Flowers All Summer!
• Beautiful Golden Yellow u0026amp; Orange Foliage
• Small Dense Shrub
• Butterfly u0026amp; Bee-Friendly u0026amp; Floral Design
• Winter Interest u0026amp; Reddish-Brown Seed Pods
• Spreading Naturalizing, Living Groundcover, Specimen u0026amp; Shade Garden Color

ProPlantTips for Care:

Loving the full sun, these easily tolerate part shade and dappled sun areas. Hypericum doesn’t have much preference for soil type, they do prefer rich, sandy loams. Just be sure to provide well-drained soils since they cannot tolerate wet feet! A generous layer of mulch retains moisture and insulates the root system from heat and winter’s chill. St. John’s Wort blooms on new wood, so prune while dormant to control the size and shape however, these really do their best in locations where they’re allowed to be themselves. Golden Rule® is deer and pest-resistant, too. Combine that with little need to prune and you’ve got a top-notch shade plant on your hands.

• Full Sun in Cooler Zones, Part Sun in Warmer Zones
• Vigorous Growing Deciduous Flowering Shrub
• Needs Well-Drained Soil u0026amp; Moderate Moisture Needs
• Prune When Dormant
• Deer Seldom Bother It, Pest u0026amp; Disease u0026amp; Salt-Resistant

This plant firmly believes in following the golden rule and beyond! Gain a selfless little plant that gives back more than it takes when you order the Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Golden Rule® St. John’s Wort! This is a great plant for that shady spot in your garden that needs a little lighting up! Order yours at Nature Hills!