Gorse
Formats
Thorny shrub for rockery, banks, landscaping, defensive and low hedges. Medicinal properties.
Deciduous of 2.5m with yellow flowers butterfly-like. Instead of leaves it has thorns. The fruit is a pod filled with seeds.
Use
Gardening, Medicinal, Restoration, Rock garden, Low hedge, Barrier hedge
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Description
Small, spiny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers. Ornamental for rockery, edgings, embankments, hedges.
Flowering
| Flower colour | Yellow |
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| Flowering period | February, March, April, May, June, Spring, Winter |
| Fragrant | Flower |
Foliage
| Foliage persistence | Deciduous |
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Botanical information
| Botanical name | Ulex europaeus |
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When to plant?
| Sowing period | April, May, June, Spring |
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| Germination (days) | 15-20 |
| Average germination (%) | 70 |
| Seeds per gram | 200 |
Where to plant?
| Type of use | Gardening, Medicinal, Restoration, Rock garden, Low hedge, Barrier hedge |
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| Soil pH | Acid |
| Soil moisture | Dry |
| Hardiness | No drought resistant, Hardy (tolerates temperatures down to -5ºC) |
| Climate zone | Temperate maritime, Temperate areas |
Planting & care
Place the seeds in bowling water at 90ºC for 10 seconds and immediately after transfer to running water with ice cubes in it. Soak for 24h and then proceed to the direct sowing.
Prefers poor, dry soils and without lime. It does not tolerate floodings.
Used as a fertiliser, firewood and to make coal. Its medicinal properties are used to treats asthma, headaches. It raises cardiac pace and fights liver disease. It is not recommended for domestic use.
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