St. Johns Wort | Plant Profile

St. John’s Wort (Hypericum) are small and dense mound forming deciduous shrubs. The foliage grows upright and naturally forms a rounded shape. Bright yellow flowers grow at the ends of stalks. The foliage color can be bright green to blue-green.

St John’s Wort prefers fertile, medium moisture, well drained soils in full sun to part shade. While fertile soil is ideal, these shrubs have some tolerance to drought and poor soils once established. Pruning should be done to maintain a tidy appearance in late summer.

St John’s Wort has many garden applications. They can be used as a low border or informal hedge. Their tolerance to dry-ish soils means that they can be planted on hillsides for erosion control, or allowed to naturalize in meadows or wildflower gardens.#