"Janet" wrote ...

charlie says...

"Janet" wrote
charlie says...

wrote
Hugh Newbury wrote:

I'm thinking of getting a new Cytisus battandieri to replace the
large
one I have, which looks as if it will expire in the next year or so.
I
would put the new one in a spot on its own and leave it to get used
to
my climate. Can I then dig it up (carefully) and transplant it into
the
proper site in a year or so? Or will it object to that?

It will object, possibly seriously. I would put it in a fairly
large,
deep pot, and replant from that.



Seconded, also if you hard prune the original after flowering you may
well
find it has a new lease of life (NB not below the graft!)

Are they grafted? I just noticed the other day that mine has put up a
sucker from underground, very close to the main stem.


Janet, it depends, they are easy to raise from seed but are then weak
rooted
and often short lived so traditionally they were grafted onto Laburnum
rootstocks, such plants are way more expensive to buy but give much
better
service. I just did not want to be the cause of ruining a good plant!

AAAARRGHH.. there I was thinking the opening leaves on the sucker tip
look pretty much like the cytisus, now I'm thinking they could equally
well be laburnum leaves
:-( Which would also explain why it grew such a tall straight sucker.

Will have to go and have a closer look now.


Looking positively, you may have gained a young Laburnum tree. :-)
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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