Pink-flowered Brooms

Our selection of Shrubs with Pink Flowers. Much less common than yellow, the colour pink also exists in these spring-flowering, fragrant and honey-bearing shrubs belonging to the Fabaceae family. Cytisus scoparius, the broom shrub, becomes romantic in the form of its varieties 'Moyclare Pink', with flowers of a tender mauve-pink and cream, 'Hollandia' mixing cherry pink, lighter pink and cream. Cytisus procumbens 'Zeelandia', with a flexible habit, covers its arching stems with a multitude of lilac-pink and cream flowers in late spring. In these shrubs, the pink colour is perceived as a whole, it is the result of a mix of red, pink, cream and white tones on the flowers. Much less known, Chamaecytisus purpureus, nicknamed the purple broom, is an attractive ground-covering shrub adorned with pink-purple pea-like flowers in late spring and early summer.

The broom is a generous but frugal shrub that generally thrives in poor and fairly dry soils in summer. It deserves a special place in the garden. It can be associated with many shrubs with foliage for a spring or staggered flowering.