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In the yellow fields of rapeseed, an increasingly widespread crop, and waiting for the sunflowers, this color seems to want to impose itself as the dominant chromatic tone of the rural spring landscapes in Catalonia, where the ginesta or broom also already shines.
In the surroundings of Terrassa, in the Vallès Occidental, these images in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos give us an example of the extent to which the yellow of the ginesta adds another note of color to this spring.
Ginesta is a shrub from the papilionaceae family (Spartium junceum), with hardly any leaves, green branches similar to reeds and yellow, fragrant flowers.
In fact, its beautiful yellowish and very fragrant flowers create a natural perfume that intoxicates hikers who encounter them on their rural and mountain routes.
It is normally located in dry meadows and bushes, in a Mediterranean climate. It grows spontaneously and wildly, although it is also used as ornamentation.
