Golden Chain Tree
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: 15-20'
- Exposure: Sun/Part Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Golden Chain Tree is frequently featured in coffee table books illustrating the greatest gardens in the world. This stellar ornamental tree is often planted in double rows and trained to form an arch overhead, and the effect is unbelievably beautiful. In bloom, a Laburnum tunnel is a profusion of fragrant sunshine-yellow blossoms raining down all around. As a single specimen, Golden Chain Tree will also create a spectacle in your yard that you will eagerly anticipate each spring. Honeybees and other valuable pollinators will look forward to this tree’s flowers, too!
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: 15-20'
- Exposure: Sun/Part Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
The parent trees of this hybrid call Southern Europe home and hybridize naturally there. The man-made crosses are called watereri hybrids, after nurseryman Anthony Waterer (perhaps you know the spirea with his name). The Waterer family entered the nursery business in Surrey, England around 1770. An immense Waterer-planted Weeping Beech still stands there, taking up a quarter of an acre. This particular variety of Golden Chain came from the Netherlands. The first account of it was described in 1875 by a one Cornelius de Vos.
The Details
The distinctive blooms on this tree will surely bring attention to your garden! Pendulous clusters of bright yellow flowers appear in spring. Bright green foliage and olive-green bark are the backdrop to these brilliant blooms. Golden Chain Tree also produces leathery brown seed pods - they should be removed to promote tree health. Pods, leaves and flowers are highly poisonous, keep away from pets and children.
How to Grow
This tree is a bit of a prima donna when it comes to living conditions. It sulks if the summers are too hot, the winters are too cold, or the soil is too soggy. But if you live in the less frigid parts of New England or have a cool-summer home in the mountains, this tree can be spectacular and is much easier to keep happy. You may still want to plant it in a site where it gets some shade from the hot afternoon sun.
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Size Guide
Scale
Size B
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Size B Trees:
8-10' tall single stem, caliper above 1 - 1 1/2" grown in our #15 tree container. Well developed branching, limbed up to 5' or so. Will flower your very first Spring.
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