Topic: Unknown flower

[landimad]

Could anyone help identifying this flower please?

It is for an old couple who have never known what it is, but keeps coming up year after year. It climbs a trellis in their garden and they love it.

[gwynnethmary]

it looks like some kind of clematis....

[landimad]

Sorry not the lovely flowers on the right but the green lump to the left.
Little yellow flowers with more stems coming out the back of them.

[Bugloss2009]

it's a bupleurum

www.robsplants.com/plants/BupleGriff.php

the native one is our only shrubby member of the parsley family... the chinese use the roots of one for erectile dysfunction I think  ;)

[gwynnethmary]

Do the flowers get any bigger than that?

[Bugloss2009]

that was just a random picture of a bupleurum. There are lots of different species. They seem to be a bit trendy at the mo, at least the Daily T thinks so

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/5966944/How-to-grow-Bupleurum-fruticosum.html

your one might be one of the ones mentioned

[landimad]

I shall have to get back to you all with this as I am doing a lot of hours at the moment.
I hope to see them over the next few days.

[landimad]

Gwynnethmary,
The flowers do not get any bigger and they seem not to be flowers more like pollen sacks.
Bugloss2009,
I don't think its a form of Bupleurum as they have these in the garden too.

We are still at a loss as to what this is and have found it is a climber which is not invasive and does not grow more than the size of the trellis in height and spread. Which is 6' high and 3' wide.

[Bugloss2009]

you'll have to post some pics of it in flower....

[landimad]

Ok will keep you updated as to when it flowers and what it looks like through the season.