Hypericum lissophloeus Landscaper Favorite Bees and butterflies

Bees and butterflies

drought tolerant once established

branches layering outward in flat

and gardeners north of the warmest zones do best to grow the tree in a large pot that can shelter indoors when hard frost threatens

or massed as a shimmering groundcover

Hypericum lissophloeus Landscaper Favorite Bees and butterfliesHypericum lissophloeus is the tree among the St. John's Worts, a graceful evergreen that climbs to ten feet or more on slender trunks dressed in smooth, copper colored bark that peels in thin sheets. The leaves are needle fine and deep green, so that from a distance the plant reads almost like a small conifer until summer, when small bright yellow flowers scatter along the stems and settle the question of family. The epithet lissophloeus is a plain