A. Many people are attracted to the bright yellow spring flowers of sweet broom, or scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius). This shrub can be short-lived in our heat, but if it adapts, it will mature to ...

I sometimes think yellow is my least favorite flower color. In spring, it is too strident; in late summer and autumn, it looks downright anemic. But in winter I am of a different mind. Next to ...

QUESTION: I purchased a sweet broom plant this past weekend. It has bright yellow blooms and makes a lovely show. When I first looked at the information tag, I saw 7 X 5, not realizing it meant 7 ...

The brooms, a closely related group of yellow-flowering shrubs in the pea family, are major-league invasives. At least four broom species - Spanish (Spartium junceum), Scotch (Cytisus scoparius ...

Richard Old, XID Services Inc., Bugwood.org Scotch broom From our friends at OSU Extension comes this timely and informative missive about Scotch broom -- that pretty but obnoxiously persistent shrub.

And then there’s blue witch’s hat, a South African winter-flowering shrub that’s only recently been recognized for its landscape value. This evergreen species (Coleus livingstonei, formerly ...

Similar pea-shaped flowers, bigger and brighter, are found on a shrubby Spanish plant, Spartium junceum, known as Spanish broom. This item is only a shrub, never a tree, and has much more solid ...

Broom is a native plant that flowers in spring a few weeks after the gorse sets the countryside ablaze with its warm yellow flowers. The colour of broom is... Friday, 6 June 2025 ...