If your garden is full of sun, many great shrubs will love it, producing fabulous flowers and interesting berries. If you’re ...

Q: Should we do something to prepare forsythia bushes now in preparation for upcoming winter? If so, how, what and when should we do this? Mary Rogers, Kalamazoo A: It's interesting this question ...

Forsythia will bloom best if they are regularly pruned. Once plants have established, prune out a third to a quarter of the oldest stems at ground level every other year (thinning).

Like many other shrubs, forsythia sends up many new stems, called suckers, from the base of the plant. (That’s what makes them shrubby.) It sends up so many, in fact, ...

Due to the extra warm winter we've had this year, it’s been a good spring for forsythia. There are loads of yellow flowers on forsythia shrubs all around our area.

An accidental shot of herbicide on a forsythia might hurt the shrub, ... I believe one of my forsythia bushes was accidentally hit with some Round-up and is now slowly dying.

“I brake for butchered plants.” Perhaps that’s what my bumper sticker should read, because I did almost slam on my brakes recently to try and save a forsythia bush – a whole row of them ...

Plant the shrubs 4 to 6 feet apart in fall giving them plenty of room. Dig a hole twice the size of the root ball. Set into the hole so the top of the root ball is flush with the earth.

How forsythia typically look in the spring - This one was brilliant in April 2022 ... the plants themselves are fine. And according to Peter Bowden from Hewitt's Garden Centers, ...

The following year, the cycle repeated: the forsythia bloomed wildly for a couple of weeks, we had a global pandemic, I forgot about cutting the bushes back until fall when it started touching the ...

Forsythias are planted for their stunning floral display in early spring. Have you ever seen a forsythia bush and, for some reason, maybe there are only blooms at the very ...