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 ...

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 ...

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 ...