Fantastic festoons of floral racemes give this Laburnum its common name of ‘Golden Rain’. The drooping clusters of small yellow flowers are produced in spring and early summer.
Describing Laburnum
- Laburnum trees produce yellow pea like flowers and pea shaped seed pods.
- These small ornamental trees are easy to cultivate and produce flowers in May & June.
- The deciduous leaves are trifoliate usually dull green and slightly hairy.
- Laburnum watereri Vossii is this free flowering form with extra long racemes of flower. Alfords Weeping is a small vigorous tree with a wide spreading head.
- Common Laburnum Laburnum anagyroides can grow to 30 feet tall, Aureum is a golden leaved variety and Autumnale often flowers again in the autumn.
- Laburnum alpinum ‘Scottish Laburnum’ is a small tree with fragrant flowers.
- Common laburnum vulgare flowers earlier and has shorter racemes with the same pea shaped flowers but hairy pods.
- Laburnum also has Erect and Pendulum varieties
Growing Tips
- Below is a Llaburnum walk way that is many years old. Such decorative walks are replanted from cuttings but most Laburnums are propagated by seed.
- Plant your laburnum tree in full sun. The more sun the better
- Laburnum are not fussy about the type of soil
- Try removing the drying seed pods on small trees to encourage a good show of flowers the following year.
- The trees are not very long lived and I have recently taken out a tree that was 30 feet high because I hadn’t kept it in check.
Health Warning on Laburnums
- All parts of Laburnum are poisonous particularly the seeds -Stop children from eating them.
- Symptoms of poisoning by Laburnum root or seed are intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements and dilated pupils.
- The seeds look tempting shiny black but are bitter alkaline to taste.
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