Genus: Lysimachia

Yes, we want less hard work in the gardens as we get older.

More time for the fun garden tasks, please !

'Planting loosestrife
Makes an easier life'

That sounds like a good slogan. LOL

Yes, I don't think anything can beat a native plant when put in the right situation. I think I will transplant these 3 plants to another sunny spot in the yard where they can form a nice colony (I'm sure all of those flowers will produce bunches of seeds and live up to the "loosestrife" name by reproducing like crazy). When I first collected the seeds from the origional plant that I found in my front yard at the edge of the woods, they weren't half this tall and only had 1/4 of the blooms. That's because it was in the shade. What a difference a sunny spot made.

I'm trying to get more and more natives into my yard because the older I get, the less work I can do in the garden, and the natives will be the ones that will survive well on their own.

Native flowers have that special instinct of knowing how to survive!
Your photo demonstrates the strength of health of this Fringed Loosestrife.

A pretty yellow.
This plant seems to produce plenty of flowers!

seems to be smirking, for knocking that pot over.

Lol
Yesterday I had fun in Woolworths; they have reduced many of their garden items (to make space for Hallowe'en or Christmas stock I suspect). I found solar powered lights, Growmore, fibre pots and a 'Paint your own' Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit (yes, I know they are intended for children but I am a big kid at heart). I think he will have to go in the veg patch somewhere.

I dont even remember planting these but i just love them.

Sounds a bit like some people I know!

Smashing pic!

is this peter rabbit without the blue jacket?

I love it too Spritz. I was given a small pot of it from a friends garden a couple years ago and it sure does spread. I'm amazed on how much of it I have. It's just coming into bloom now.

Lovely photo, I can see how it got that name !

Celandine - it's about 2'6" tall, it spreads and pops up along the border but I still love it! It is indeed the 'Goose neck' one, Mike, so the flower spikes have the distinctive 'curl-over' at the top. Thanks Irish and Jacque!

Is this the one that is also called goose neck ?

beautiful photo

This is a great photo.
Don't know the plant. How big is it?

MMMMMMMMMmmm very pretty :)

It looked like a real bunny on the thumbnail :) LOVE Creeping Jenny

This looks great Xela :)

Simple, 5 petals and so lovely, nice leaves too. It looks like a posy.

Exactly Flcrazy about the crawfish tail ! Very observant. The first time I saw one I thought it was a bee of some sort. I'm fortunate to get at least 3 different kinds here. The Hummingbird, the Snowberry and the Nessus Sphinx isn't a clearwing but comes to nectar during the day like a clearwing.

I had one visit my garden two years ago!... I could not believe what I was seeing either, Flcrazy! The biggest difference was that it showed no fear of a human being...the hummers just scatter when someone walks out on the deck...but it hung around and had a good sampling of everything then just buzzed off! lol. hasn't come back since I got my digital camera...

I really must get some of this! wonderful photo of the hummer and I can see why he's attracted to that lovely healthy looking plant..

I looked up the loosestrife horror at the Agriculture college at Guelph...aparently it was a false alarm...lol. Grammazoo do your remember all the "fireweed" in the ponds and swamps in the north? What was all the fuss about? Heard an interview on CBC (our public radio) where an official from the Ministry of the Environment admitted that the feared "invasion" never happened... So we can all love our loosestrife again!!

Aren't they the coolest looking creatures, I remember the first time I saw one, I thought , what the heck is that thing ! It looked like it had a crawfishes tail, but was hovering like a hummingbird, thought I was losing it!

Thank you both ! Everytime I see a Zebra Swallowtail it's a WOW moment. I'm so lucky to have many Paw Paw's here in the yard and edge of woods (their host plant).

Thanks ! I will admit I have 5 different kinds of loosestrife here and not one has made me hate it yet. I have the dreaded purple in a large pot in my pond. It's been there for 8 years in that same pot.

I've yet to see one of these ! Great shot!

Great photo! I like the loosestrife too, even the terrible purple invader...

I'm enjoying all your butterfly pictures very much

This an extremely WOW picture! I wish my Lysimachia had these on it!

This is groundcover for my back garden, but I like the way you have it trailing out of your pots. I may steal your idea for next year.

Mine just started to bloom today :)

I have the tall lysimachia...should look for this.

Love this plant and I also like to mix the gold with the green.

Lovely shot..! The lighting is perfect for this plant.Really shows off it's bright and cheerful colors.

I left this behind when I moved to a smaller garden because as you say it's a determined spreader.

what a lovely picture of this great plant..........

What a Fab Yellow :)

I have this plant, I know it spreads but it sure make a lovely splash of colour. x

Thanks Spritz...forewarned is forarmed!

WOOOO! It's a spreader like its brother L. punctata - so you will need to control it, Lori! I dug some up last year for a friend and gave her a warning about it...

love the star shape blossoms...

I have a question for you about Lysimachia... I have inherited some from my neighbour...it just slipped under my fence when I wasn't looking...Is it difficult to contain? I like the nice purple bronze leaf...and the flowers on the new arrival are yellow and pretty... can I leave it to it's own devices or should I take control?

Thank you, Sarah.

That's a gorgeous combination of flowers and foliage.

This is a bit of a thug ,it grows anywhere Its growing in the little shady bed at the front

I like the yellow Flower its pretty :)

Wow, you weren't kidding. looks like Caesar's army!! Chop! Chop!

Some plants are all about addition....other's like this ..it's subtraction!!
garden arithmetic? lol. I have a lysimachia with purple foliage and yellow flowers that came through the fence from a neighbour...she also sent me some raspeberry canes... so I planted aegopodium and spearmint on my side...hope she likes them!! lol. Whoever said "Good fences make good neighbours" never had her on the otherside of the fence!.

Pretty. I'd like to have one. What about in a container on a deck or something, to keep down the spreading.

Looks like a whole crop!

Ive got these.

YOurs has flowered early..I've got some not open yet...chezs

I don't blame you! It's pretty - but hard to keep digging it up. Not a well-behaved plant.

This is one plant I did not bring from my old garden. I was so fed up with trying to control it that I decided to leave it behind,

I have some of these and I am always digging them up as well never knew their name untill now Spritz just called them those yellow flowers

Yes your right Maple would much prefer trailing over edge of pond to being immersed in it .At 8" depth would need to float on surface try water hawthorn or water forget -me - not.If you havent already.

I'm no expert on this but I think Creeping Jenny will tolerate bog conditions but not underwater planting. It is fairly invasive in all it's planting situations so go careful.