Yellow flowering Brooms

A selection of Bushes with yellow flowers. Yellow, in all its shades, is a very common colour among these amazing bushes from the Fabaceae family, such as Cytisus, Genista, or Spartium. Their flowering is generally in spring, often fragrant and honey-producing, invariably radiant. Cytisus scoparius, the broom bush, has produced very beautiful cultivars such as C. praecox 'Vanesse' with a bright golden yellow or 'Luna' with a soft and luminous yellow. The early broom, Cytisus praecox, is well known for the 'Allgold' early broom, which blooms as early as March. Native to the Mediterranean, Spartium junceum fills the air with fragrance in late spring. Also from the south, Genista hispanica is a wild Spanish broom with a bright yellow colour that forms a spreading cushion that covers the ground well. Many other species of broom also have yellow flowers, such as Genista lydia, Genista tinctoria, the Tenerife broom Cytisus racemosus Phebus, or the magnificent Cytisus battandieri, a large bush that blooms in clusters of golden yellow flowers with a sweet pineapple fragrance, mostly in summer.

The broom is a generous but frugal bush, which generally thrives in poor and fairly dry soil in summer. It deserves a special place in the garden. It can be associated with many bushes with foliage or spring or staggered blooming.