CYTISUS x racemosus

Easy shrub, perennial and semi-deciduous, very decorative: lignified and strongly branched at the base, it can easily grow up to 2 meter tall and even larger. The leaves, dense and minute, trifoliate and alternate, hairless and thin, are dark green and make the background in spring for abundant spiky-shaped inflorescences, composed of papillary, yellow and fragrant flowers, irresistible attraction for bees, butterflies and insects in general.

It can be also grown in pot but it's better to put it in the open ground as mono-specie hedges, associated with other plants or as a single bush. It needs to ensure it a position in full sun or part-shade, and a fertile and well drained soil. You should shorten the branches just after the blooming in order to keep an ordered and compact shape of the plant.