What's this tree? (photo)

[posalie]

Can anyone help identify this tree with yellow flowers? It's over seven foot, and seems to really attract snails.

Try and you!

Laburnum?

Thanks you for the reply. I did wonder but the leaves don't quite look the same, and I'm not sure the flowers will droop like that. But maybe they will over time?

Does it attract hundreds of bees? My neighbours have something that looks similar and is covered in bumble bees during summer. I've always wondered what it was but they rent and don't know.

Is it forsythia? They usually have so many flowers that you can't see the leaves, but maybe yours have been eaten by snails finished?

Actually, I don't think it is now that I've looked again.

But maybe this? Have you got a close up of the flowers?

hayloft.co.uk/product/cytisus-battandieri-pineapple-broom/ca22318

It doesn't attract lots of bees and I don't think it's forsythia. The yellow flowers have just started blooming. I can update with a new photo in a week's time if helpful!

Is this clearer? I can go outside and take another photo if needed!

I think it IS pineapple broom, thank you Grannyachings! I'll look out 👃🏼 for the pineapple scent...

Oh, good - so irritating when you don't know what something is!

It sounds rather lovely, actually. I'm quite tempted to buy one!

We inherited it from the previous owner, and I really like it. It was absolutely infested with snails a week ago though, which I've had to pull off one by one. Really quite frightening number of them, like nothing I'd seen before!

It’s clearly in the pea family Fabaceae. Not laburnum because the flowers aren’t dangling. So I’d go with Agyrocytisus battandieri too (Hayloft is still using the old name)