Laburnum time again.

Golden Rain..
Dosn't it just warm your heart

 

Nice one roders,
mine flowers biennially, last year it was a complete mass of flowers this year just a few here and there.

 

They are just gorgous, aren't they. I love May with all the flowering shrubs & trees, so beautiful.

 

Beautiful Roders, Laburnum and Wisteria - they are just gorgous.

Now if I could just get my Sesbania to flower again

 

I have one at the bottom of my garden, it's a wonderful site seeing the mass of yellow in the morning.

 

What a lovely picture!

Fran, what is a sesbania? I googled for pictures and got some lovely red flowers but lots of varieties, tell us more!
Also near me are several lovely trees very similar to laburnums, but with white flowers and smaller racemes. Any one know this one?

 

Could be robinia Liz.

 

Sesbania syn Daubentonia. Luguminosae/papilionacea

Unfortunately it is tender - but it is a gorgious tree/shrub. I brought some seed back from Florida - geminated and grew on in the greenhouse. When it grew to big for the greenhouse I overwintered it on the patio and then put it in the border - and at last it flowered. Sadly it did not survive the next winter - but I had cuttings. Imagine a laburnum with smaller pinnate leaves, and long racemes of scarlet flowers.

The cutting is now in a more sheltered spot having overwintered on the patio, and I have another cutting for insurance. If, with our milder winters I can get it to overwinter twill be magical.

Sadly the weedwitch friend in Florida who provided it has died. But she sent me some seed a couple of months ago as added insurance.