(Download) Broom Flowering Shrub
Not completely hardy in the uk.
Broom flowering shrub. Genista hispanica spanish gorse is a dense spiny gorse like shrub. Cytisus scoparius the common broom or scotch broom syn. Uliceae webb 1852 genisteae is a tribe of trees shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily faboideae of the legume family fabaceae. It includes a number of well known plants including broom lupine lupin gorse and laburnum. Sarothamnus scoparius is a perennial leguminous shrub native to western and central europe. Genista aetnensis mount etna broom is a tree like shrub with linear leaves and yellow flowers in july. Broom shrub care once the flowers are spent and seed heads have formed pruning broom shrubs is recommended to reduce seed spread.
Broom is a large deciduous shrub similar in appearance to gorse but without the spines. About broom shrub plants brooms form small to large shrubs that grow very quickly. This speedy development makes the plants a threat to native species. Other trimming is up to you but not strictly necessary. Some broom species are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive flowers. In the spring the shrub becomes covered with small bright yellow flowers. Thin branches arch upward reaching maximum heights of 6 feet.
Just a light deadheading will do the job. Height to 10ft 3m spread to 8ft 2 4m and more. Brooms are a group of evergreen semi evergreen and deciduous shrubs. All the brooms and their relatives including laburnum and ulex grow in europe north africa and southwest asia. Broom genus cytisus genus of several shrubs or small trees of the pea family fabaceae native to temperate regions of europe and western asia. Its bright yellow flowers appear in spring from april to june and smell of vanilla. The broom plant cytisus scoparius grows as a hardy deciduous flowering shrub.