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GROWING SWEET BROOM FULL

Cut back one in three stems to ground level each year, but do not cut into old wood. Remove flowered shoots back to vigorous sideshoots. Needs annual pruning to encourage strong, healthy shoots and improve flowering.Can be grown as an informal flowering hedge. Great for banks and slopes, beds and borders, cottage gardens, coastal gardens, rock gardens, or city gardens.Excellent shrub for gardens that get little watering. Tolerates drought, dry soils, poor soils and salt.

GROWING SWEET BROOM FULL

Easily grown in any, well-drained soils in full sun.

Cytisus x praecox is a hybrid variety made from crossing Cytisus purgans and C. Fast-growing, adaptable, care-free, it is drought, dry and poor soils, salt tolerant. It is also effective as an informal screen or hedge, and one of the loveliest shrubs for lawn planting. It is a fine choice for mass planting along slopes or hillsides.

When in bloom, Warminster Broom is one of the most eye-catching sight in the spring garden. Firstly, you need to put all the seeds in hot water for about 24 hours before planting. After a brief appearance in spring, the leaves fall, leaving behind a bushy mound of gray-green stems which provide interest all winter. How do you grow Sweet Broom shrubs Step 1. The stems bear small, mostly simple leaves, 1/2 in. Incredibly showy, they literally smother the plant. One of the brooms earliest to flower, Cytisus x praecox (Warminster Broom) is a dense, bushy, deciduous shrub with slender arching stems boasting a profusion of pale yellow pea-like flowers held in clusters.