Specialty Gardening: Flowers in the garden, 1 by haighr

haighr wrote:
Welcome soilsandup, nice to have you. First, the stems make great cut flowers - I just used a few in the "theme tulip time" that Terri started some time ago before I had any tulips.
Second, not invasive at all, it has a single trunk which drives me nuts because it just won't stay upright. Even after all these years I have it tied to the deck rail and a stake driven into the ground for anchor as I believe they must be shallow rooted. I believe it is the cytisus scoparius but believe me it has not spread anywhere, it does get quite top heavy so the railing is a helpful support.
We used to have one next to it until this spring, had the same problem as it kept uprooting and didn't look good in early spring so we pulled it out and got rid of it. I am really sorry as it was the one that got the purple petals.
I'd say they are/were about 5' tall and they have/had been there 7 or so years. Like I say the yellow one above is still thriving and beautiful today and about 5' in height about 4' wide at top spread and a single trunk.
Here is a photo of the burgundy one that I lost, or got rid of.