Robinia frisia is a small tree with a gold leaf, extremely attractive and very suitable for the small garden.

It is quite hardy but needs a well drained soil otherwise it is liable to suffer die back and infection by coral spot fungus.

The vigour may be quite strong and the shoots are very thorny, but it always remains a fairly small tree with magnificent golden foliage that creates a great garden specimen plant.

Trees show a huge variety of colour in their foliage from the pinks, yellow and orange of the spring flush, summer strong greens to the vivid reds and golden orange of autumn, and this can be seen in this link to John's paintings of the Scottish landscape.