Yesterday i purchased a cassia surattensis (desert cassia) scrambled egg tree. I fell in love with the lovely yellow flowers it when i saw one planted near my work . i took a picture and went to the closest nursery and bought one! Now i need help. It is a 15g and approx 8ft tall. I have tried to do research on how to care for this tree as i am a newbie to gardening but cannot find much information. Can anyone help? do i need to trim, cutback, how often etc?
It has beautiful yellow flowers and i want to make sure it stays that way. Any help is appreciated
thanks
Well I googled cassia surattensis and it looks a heckuva lot like Christmas cassia except it seems more tree-like whereas Christmas cassia (cassia bicapsularis) is multi-trunked.
So now I think the new cassia tree just planted in our front yard must be C. surattensis. Seriously it looks exactly like the Christmas cassia in our side yard in all respects except the trunk.
How to take care of it? Don't prune except in spring, after bloom season's over. Really care-free. After planting: water deeply every day for the first 2 weeks and then deeply once a week for the next 3 weeks. That means make a well around the bottom and fill it up, wait for it to drain and fill again.
Thanks for clueing me in that mine is C. surattensis not C. bicapsularis. I don't think the sulfur b-flies care, they love both of them all day long.
