An eruption of yellow
Filed Under (Questions) by on 04-08-2009
It is Genista aetnensis, the Mount Etna broom, from the hot, volcanic Sicilian mountain. No wonder it likes excessive heat and drought. If you visite Mount Etna, you can understand why this plant is such a survivor. The conditions there are dry but surprisingly friendly to the right types of plant life. Genista etnensis is exactly the right type.
Its thin, wiry leaves lose little water and do not need mucho more.
The plants grow up to 15ft tall and erupt into their shower of yellow flowers when the Sicilian summers are starting to hit the heights of heat. No wonder it likes excessive heat and drought.
Its strong orange-yellow flowers are extremely pretty there in early May, which remind you of a Golden Rain firework. An eruption of yellow.
It is simply a great shrub, ideally suited to a warming world and extraordinarily free with its little yellow flowers. Alternatively it will eventually make a tall, widely branched tree, but never so dense that it blocks out the light.
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