Does somebody know this little shrub?
By Katarina
6 Jun, 2015
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I picked it up from a rock on the northern Sicily shores.
Planted it in my garden 6 years ago. I thought, it died in those cold winters here. This year, probably due to favor climate, the shrub appeares under my lavenders and is beautiful.
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OK, Brian, I uploaded closer photo of the acer, with details of its leaves. Just for comment, leaves are green in the spring, turn into beautiful pin-orange at the end of summer and then into dark purple in the autumn.
7 Jun, 2015
Katarina, this plant is Hypericum olympicum. Native to Greece (I believe.)
8 Jun, 2015
Thank you very much, Klahanie! Wow. It is from Sicily! But Greeks settled in ancient times in the South of Sicily, I read. Maybe somebody had seeds on the shoes :-)
9 Jun, 2015
:-)
9 Jun, 2015
flowers look like Hypericum but can't really see the leaves.
same applies with the Acer needs a close up for anyone to have a chance of identity
6 Jun, 2015