Winter Forsythia Spectabilis

This can create stunning golden mounds throughout landscapes breaking up the drab snow covered ground with a promise of what s to come. A true harbinger of spring forsythia bursts into a vibrant display of golden blooms before any leaf foliage emerges.

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Winter forsythia spectabilis

Spectabilis this shrub known as showy border forsythia is one of the best of the original forsythia x intermedia crosses and is the standard by which new cultivars are compared. This is the best time to prune your forsythia. Timing depends a lot on your planting zone.

At this point the plant starts to develop next year s buds and the plant carries the buds through the fall and winter season. It is vigorous and grows 10 feet tall and wide. Grow forsythia in full sun and almost any type of soil although it prefers moist conditions and clay to loam soils but cannot tolerate wet soils.

Forsythia through the seasons. Prune forsythia plants right after they finish blooming in the spring. Early spring l late spring lc summer c fall rc and winter r.

If you live where the ground does not freeze you can plant even during the winter months. With newer varieties growing in smaller more manageable sizes every landscape should have a forsythia to break out of the late winter blues. The flowers are bright yellow.

Forsythia can be planted pretty much all year long other than when there is a frost or freeze. This fast growing shrub with vibrant yellow flowers makes a welcome sight on any landscape and is one of the earliest flowers to bloom in spring. The forsythia is one of the better known garden plants and is a familiar flowering shrub in many homes.

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