Laburnum is splendid this year. Following on a list of flowering trees and shrubs, such as cherries, magnolias and forsythia, laburnum has benefited from the sunny summer last year to make a record ...

Bright yellow flowers dangling from arching branches, laburnum is a very popular tree and widely planted. Sometimes it is self-sown and it is not at all unusual to see seedlings sprouting up close to ...

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This time last year, I was in northern Wales, waiting in line to see the peak of flowering on the laburnum trees. This year those gardens will have no such line. Still, they will bloom, with or ...