This is..say, what is it?
This interesting shrub was in the perennial beds when we moved in. It was kind of not sitting right, flopping around too easily. I tried tying it to get the shoots to point upright, and twisted out a big hunk of it by mistake. Over the course of the year it bounced back despite my efforts, and has found a posture it likes, and is spraying out with hundreds of purplish red flowers.
I was confident that it was Scotch broom Cystisus sp. until I started researching it. Now it seems likely that it's some hybrid mutant with a name like "lilac time." I love you plant cultivators, but you are perverted weirdos, worse than dog breeders maybe.
