Comments on: Growing St. John’s Wort in Florida http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2008/08/growing-st-johns-wort-in-florida/ Discovering the Edible and Medicinal Plants of Florida Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: E. K. Sommer http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2008/08/growing-st-johns-wort-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-366 E. K. Sommer Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:15:29 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=19#comment-366 Here in the southeast, the sun can be brutal on a lot plants that thrive in up north. I have planted my comfrey in a place that gets dappled shade most of the time and full shade in the afternoon in the summer. It seems healthy. The <em>Hypericum </em>has been a disappointment to me as well, and I am resigned to wildcrafting (or enjoying the wildcrafting fruits of my friend's when they travel to up the coast to Virginia and North Carolina. I only wish I knew the reason it won't grow here. Is it the soil? The sun? The humidity? Maybe someone will figure it out. Here in the southeast, the sun can be brutal on a lot plants that thrive in up north. I have planted my comfrey in a place that gets dappled shade most of the time and full shade in the afternoon in the summer. It seems healthy.

The Hypericum has been a disappointment to me as well, and I am resigned to wildcrafting (or enjoying the wildcrafting fruits of my friend’s when they travel to up the coast to Virginia and North Carolina. I only wish I knew the reason it won’t grow here. Is it the soil? The sun? The humidity? Maybe someone will figure it out.

]]> By: jeanne http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2008/08/growing-st-johns-wort-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-365 jeanne Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:04:13 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=19#comment-365 well, that explains it. i've got it half in and out of the sun in atlanta, and it's been growing and spreading for the 3 years i've had it, but i've never gotten even a bud out of it. i wonder if i should put it more in the sun, but i'm thinking it will crisp up and die if it gets more than morning sun. great plant, tho, but disappointing to my herbal expectations. (how strong the sun is - i put a comfrey plant just a foot farther into the sun from where i put the hypericum, and it died in the sun, but still thrives in a shadier spot in the same garden) well, that explains it. i’ve got it half in and out of the sun in atlanta, and it’s been growing and spreading for the 3 years i’ve had it, but i’ve never gotten even a bud out of it. i wonder if i should put it more in the sun, but i’m thinking it will crisp up and die if it gets more than morning sun. great plant, tho, but disappointing to my herbal expectations. (how strong the sun is – i put a comfrey plant just a foot farther into the sun from where i put the hypericum, and it died in the sun, but still thrives in a shadier spot in the same garden)

]]> By: Angela,Johnson http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2008/08/growing-st-johns-wort-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Angela,Johnson Sat, 09 May 2009 15:39:31 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=19#comment-323 I live in Tennessee,this is the second year I have had this lovely plant. It has not bloomed yet this year but it has spread to a foot wide from one individual plant to several. I hope it blooms vibrantly. I am planning to see how many of the fabulous herbs will grow here in Tennessee. I live in Tennessee,this is the second year I have had this lovely plant. It has not bloomed yet this year but it has spread to a foot wide from one individual plant to several. I hope it blooms vibrantly. I am planning to see how many of the fabulous herbs will grow here in Tennessee.

]]> By: leslie williams http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2008/08/growing-st-johns-wort-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-75 leslie williams Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:30:30 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=19#comment-75 All the years I lived and practiced in Archer/Gainesville I had the same experience with Hypericum. I would grow,grudgingly, but never thrive. Luckily I lived part time in the Ozarks and in parts of Missouri there were carpets of St J's Wort blooming wildly in summers. I think it is important to keep finding the medicinal herbs that do want to live there - which indeed is a challenge because we have so much of the Euro- herbalism and the farther north North American models in most books and many teachers. What a nice website! All the years I lived and practiced in Archer/Gainesville I had the same experience with Hypericum. I would grow,grudgingly, but never thrive. Luckily I lived part time in the Ozarks and in parts of Missouri there were carpets of St J’s Wort blooming wildly in summers. I think it is important to keep finding the medicinal herbs that do want to live there – which indeed is a challenge because we have so much of the Euro- herbalism and the farther north North American models in most books and many teachers.
What a nice website!

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