Could someone identify a tree in my garden, I've had it a few years now, but lost the label?
Question:Description:-
Appears to be a rambler or climber, growing through trellis. Highest point about ten feet. Grey evergreen leaves, with yellow lupin like flowers about three inch's long in early-mid summer. the flowers have a slight pinneapple flavour, hence our nick name for it Pinneapple tree. We know it isn't.
Thank you
Answers:
yes, Veronica is quite correct, we appear to have this one sewn up for a change. I had one at my previous house, where it rambled around a trellis at the top of a wall. its quite unusual and a lot of comments about it were forthcoming from visitors. I haven't seen one in garden centres lately. What I did with mine was to prune it into shape, lightly, after after flowering. The new growth achieved this year will produce next years blooms. Class shrub/tree, look after it. Oh, nearly forgot, the flowers don't mind the rain!
Any pics of this rambler? It might be a honeysuckle?
iT IS POSSIBLY A "LABURNHAM",WITH THE DESCRIPTION YOU GAVE ME...
There is a broom called "Pineapple Broom" Cytisus battandieri.
Described in my RHS book as Semi-evergreen, open shrub. Leaves have 3 silver-grey leaflets. Large, dense racems of pineapple-scented yellow flowers appear from early to mid-summer.
Height and width up to 6 metres.
Any possibility?
It is an unlikely looking form of broom called Cytisus battandieri.
Its proably a broom If it is a Laburnam, the flowers are poisonous. Beware.
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