Hypericum lloydii Conifers urn-shaped white flowers open in

urn-shaped white flowers open in spring

in the same sweet-scented family as the native summersweets

a curious yellowing of vision

round white flower heads about an inch across

so a flowering tree can look

Hypericum lloydii Conifers urn-shaped white flowers open inHypericum lloydii is one of the fine textured St. John's Worts, a low, wiry evergreen shrub clothed in needle like leaves so slender that the plant carries a heathery, almost coniferous look. Through the summer the stems light up with showy yellow flowers, each a shallow cup packed with stamens, held above foliage that stays green through the year. The species wears two very different faces, and Woodlanders offers the less familiar of the pair. In the