Trying this a second time. Think that this is the last time. Extremely hard to care for. Looks really good for a few days, then sta...Read Morerts turning yellow. Hates the Texas weather. It is either too wet or too dry for this plant to survive. A fairly cheap plant to buy for a reason. Doesn't live long. Too much trouble.
Planted this shrub March 2012 under the name "Sweet Broom" (Genista (cytisus) x spachiana) from Home Depot.
Shrub looked great all...Read More summer with tons of yellow blooms and a nice looking green shrub. By Oct 2012 it had become infested with the Genista catepillar that was devouring all the greenery. It forms a web like substance that kills all the greenery on the shrub. It quickly devours the whole plant. I tried many different sprays including what a website recommended. The spray will kill the caterpillar but NOT any eggs laid. You must repeat spraying every week and spray every square inch of the plant or they come back. I have been battling them for almost a year now & I am DONE with this plant. Too hi-maintenance for the time spent in keeping this plant. Sept 2013, dug it up and threw it away! Gee, my beautiful orchids are less to maintain then this plant. Not worth the time & effort...besides the moth is ugly and not worth keeping just to feed the moth.
Trying this a second time. Think that this is the last time. Extremely hard to care for. Looks really good for a few days, then sta...Read More
Planted this shrub March 2012 under the name "Sweet Broom" (Genista (cytisus) x spachiana) from Home Depot.
Shrub looked great all...Read More
INFO: The Home Depot is selling this plant calming that it will grow in Maryland. Please treat it as an annual in Maryland.
This plant tends to die suddenly within a year of being planted.
The flowers smell like lemons. The plant grows VERY rapidly (which is great!). I am hoping it will bloom in the fall as well. I live in zone 8b.
Very easy, drought tolerant, yellow flowers in spring. Similar to Cytisus spachianus "Sweet Broom".