Identification?

[PajamaLife]

Hello,

Is anyone able to identify the plant in the attached pictures, please? We have been at our property for 5 years now and they keep coming back every spring/summer. These are at the front of our house. Behind them is a wooden post and a steep banking. I really like them and I want to plant some in my back garden - either by digging some of these up and replanting them or by getting seeds. I'm a novice gardener and I quite clueless about it all! Any tips?

Thank you x

That looks a little like evening primrose

parade.com/844350/juliebawdendavis/grow-evening-primrose-in-your-late-summer-and-fall-garden/amp/

Hard to tell without close ups of leaf and flower but you could compare them?

Thanks for your reply. The evening primrose looks really similar but not quite the same. Here are a few closer pics. Thanks for your help 😀

It is yellow garden loostrife (Lysimachia punctata), very vigorous and spreads rapidly. Easy to divide and transplant if you want more

Amazing! Thank you. Would I just dig them up at the roots and plant them in a flowerbed or planter? The bees certainly like it! Can't wait to research it on google 🤓 thanks again x

Yes, very pollen and nectar rich and beloved by bees

Yup, just wait until it has finished flowering, simply dig up a lump of it, cut the vegetation back to a few inches above the rootball to prevent water and transpiration losses and replant in your favoured location. Give it a good watering for a while until it is looking established - job done! It prefers a moist soil, but can spread rapidly and swamp other plants. It will also grow in drier soils, but will possibly grow in a more stunted fashion and flower less freely. All loostrifes have a tendency to be vigorous growers, particularly in damp locations.

It is actually a member of the Primulaceae family, closely related to primroses, cowslips and oxslips etc. Creeping jenny and Scarlet pimpernel are in the same family, but the familiar waterside plant Purple loosestrife, although similarly named is in the Lythraceae family - gets confusing doesn't it?!

Yes, beekeeper's right. It's "proper" English name is dotted loosestrife, though gardeners call it yellow loosestrife, even though yellow loosestrife is Lysimachia vulgaris, a Uk wild flower.

If they run rampant just dig the roots out. Took a couple of years to get rid of mine but it's gone now. Bit of a thug in my garden