Whilst most garden plants are drab and flowerless during the winter months, this attractive shrub flowers from December until April, making it a great backdrop to early spring bulbs such as crocus and daffodils.
A compact and elegant shrub to grace any garden, Coronilla is a feast for the senses with evergreen, bluish leaves and bright orange-yellow clusters of deliciously-scented flowers. Easy to grow, Coronilla is a hard-working plant, flowering through winter and spring and adding a much needed 'pick-me-up' to your garden just when it needs it most. With a compact, rounded habit, Coronilla glauca is absolutely ideal for gardens of any size and well-suited to growing in a large container in a conservatory or on a sheltered patio where you can make the most of its glorious, scented flowers. Commonly known as 'Bastard Senna' or 'Scorpion Vetch', Coronilla get its Latin name from the crown-like shape formed by its perfect, velvety flower clusters, and is more than happy growing against a warm, sunny wall or in a sheltered border where it makes an elegant shrub, tumbling over other flowers. Forming a neat plant around 80cm in height and width, your Coronilla will be supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot.
This hard working shrub bears a profusion of flowers in winter and spring, just when the garden is at it dullest. Fragrant pale yellow, pea-like blooms stand out against a backdrop of blue-green foliage that remains evergreen. With a compact, rounded habit Coronilla glauca 'Citrina' is ideal for gardens of any size, adding a splash of valuable winter colour to sunny borders. Coronilla is particularly useful in coastal areas where it will happily tolerate exposed conditions. This hardy shrub also makes a superb wall shrub. Height and spread: 100cm (39).