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gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
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Hi all. This er! weed, or exotic must have plant, suddenly appeared next to the pergola. Noticed it first when is was app 10cm in height & within a month or so it's grown to app 5ft. It looks rather nice but in the wrong location. If it's worth keeping, advice please on A, what is it & B when to move it.
Many thanks for any advice given. 

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    cytisus?
    Devon.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Looks like a broom (cytisus) and has yellow pea-like flowers.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You beat me to it @Hostafan1 … that’s what I was going to say. 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    You can move it now if you want to, while the soil is warm and moist and before it outgrows that space.  Try to get as much of the rootball as you can and dig the hole you are planning to move it to first.  It flowers in spring so I'd avoid any pruning until after it has flowered.  They are relatively short lived, up to about seven years.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
    Wow! Thanks for your responses & shifting advise. Greatly appreciated.  
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited September 2022
    @gsdfandf I agree with the above my only concern would be if it is top heavy as roots may have been restricted.  It may be a kill or cure situation.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    It will be a wilding.   So deep yellow vanilla-scented flowers.  Broom will grow quite big unless pruned hard evry year after flowering.  There are more gentle colour varieties available.  Prune before you move it, that will load your kill/cure more onto the cure side.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @gsdfandf I think you will know if it is top heavy when you move it. If it is rocking about once replanted you will have no choice but to prune it, although it really is the wrong time of year. You will also loose most of next years flowers. Cutting into old wood isn't an option either as it won't regrow. A tidy each year after flowering is the best option. 
    A gardening dilemma.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
    Thanks again, the problem we have is, though we have quite a big garden finding room for it will be a problem. SWMBO asks the question, could we plant it in quite a largish tub? That's if we can get it, roots & all, out as I've mentioned, it's right next to the pergola & a path. What about leaving it in situ & tending it where it is?
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