Planting beautiful flowers and shrubs alongside forsythia can enhance your garden's appeal, and these 25 plants will help you create a harmonious landscape.

Pruning is a popular winter gardening task, but we thought we'd take a look at the plants you should never prune in December to ensure we aren't dealing our trees and shrubs undue damage.

Most forsythia in the Capital Region that have blooms are either in very protected areas or their blooms are close to the ground where snow likely covered the buds during the winter.

Putting it another way, forsythia flower buds form on newly grown wood and are held on all winter for blossoming the following spring. The optimum time to prune forsythia is right after the flower ...

So, trim a forsythia immediately after the blooms fall off. Another reason forsythia may not bloom is the result of sever winter cold. The extreme cold of a "polar vortex" can kill forsythia flower ...

Forsythia and other spring-blooming shrubs, like lilacs and vernal witch hazel, start developing flower buds the previous year, meaning they bloom on old wood. Why isn’t my forsythia blooming well?

Read on for our favorite winter flowers. Winter Jasmine A doppelgänger to spring-blooming forsythia, winter jasmine's bright yellow blooms bring sunny color to winter days.

Another, traditional marker signalling the time is right to prune is forsythia. Bloom on a forsythia is considered a green light for winter pruning.

This is also a good week to prune forsythia and bring the bare branches indoor for winter forcing.