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Old 25-08-2011, 09:31 PM
lannerman lannerman is offline
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Originally Posted by Glenys Everest View Post
Hi There!!

First question = what are these plants both called?
Second = Is it worth raising the "bush" from seeds?
Third = Will the other more feathery plant actually flower at some point before it swamps our garden and swallows it whole!!??

Fanx

Glenys
Sheffield UK
Hi Glenys, The left hand picture is of the seeds of the plant in the middle picture and its a Cytisus of some sort, commonly called 'broom'. If I had to guess, i'd plump for Cytisus praecox which has lovely creamy 'pea-like' flowers in Spring.
You can grow it from the seeds but the subsequent plants may not be the colour of the parent plant due to gentics of which ever plant the pollen came from ?
Cant help with the plant on the right but a guess would be some type of cosmos (looking at the foliage).
Lannerman.