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starlight1153 Seale, AL(Zone 8b) Mar 25, 2007

I was out at the market yesteday and there this little older lady that take s cuttigns of things round her yard all the time and root s them and brings them to sell. I been getting little odds and end cuttings from her for years. yesterday she had somethign in full bloom I had never seen before in these one gallon pots.

She calle d it Sweet Broom. really cool bright yellow blooms and such delicate foliage I thought maybe it was a herbaceous perennial instead of a shrub. I said ouch at the price which was $12 bucks but bought it anyways. Then I find out four hours later from somebody else that they got in hundred s of them at the Hoem Depot down the street for 5.99 . Can't blame a person for recycling and tryign to make a living, but probably wouldn't feel quite as bad if she hadn't doubled the price. I could of got two then. Oh well.

Anyhoo... Anbody ever grown this thing? The tag I got from off a store pot calls it Cytisus x spachianus. I see the tag says sun, but it that full sun or sun part shade. It also says to prune after flowering to maintain siz e and form, but would you want to do renual pruining or informal on this shrub. It almost looks to deleicate to do any kind of prunign on.

Doe s the branche s look bigger or stronger when it gets bigger. My oine gallon is about a foot tall and almost as wide. I almost afraid to touch it cuz it feels like it has no substence to it. Afraid I gonna crush it if I touch it. Sure is pretty though. Just hope it not gonna be a seedling starter all over.

gott a take a pic of the othe r thign I got from her that maybe somebody wil be able to identify. She ha d no idea what it was and I sure haven't seen anythign like it before , but has lovely cluster white flowers on it. Watch be my luck have picke d up something yet again that needs to be destroyed.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Mar 25, 2007

We have several Cytisus species out here that are all over the place, they've escaped cultivation and have taken over the world. C. spachianus is not known to be invasive (doesn't mean it isn't, just that they don't have the evidence yet) but I'm guessing it would still be a pretty vigorous hard to kill plant. The other brooms may be OK in your area too, not everything is invasive in every part of the country and you have a different climate than we do.

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