Re: winter flowers & Coronilla glauca

Here, Coronilla glauca has become widely naturalised and is quite a
common component of wild scrub, especially along coastal cliff faces
throughout much of the area.  It provides a very cheery splash of
brilliant yellow in mid winter and carries on flowering right up to
early-mid April.  Generally we see it as a dense, somewhat sprawling
evergreen shrub, forming broad mounds up to around 4 or rarely 5 feet
high and suckering or seeding itself about.  It is highly drought
tolerant and seems to thrive in almost bare rock.

When I first moved here, the back 'yard' was hidden under huge mounds
of it  - most of which had spread by suckering and it took quite a
while before I had the heart to rip it all out.  Both seedlings and
suckers continued to appear for at least 5 years after that and the
temptation to allow one to develop was very great. 

Dave Poole
Torquay UK
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