Once your outside soil is workable, you can put your new forsythia bush into the ground. The easiest plant for creating new plants would be pussy willows, but I don’t find them as colorful as ...

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 ...

Like with most bushes and plants, the location of the forsythia is the major factor in how much it will grow. The forsythia (named after 18th-century Scottish horticulturist William Forsyth) might ...

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, ...

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).

Advance file photosTough, easy-to-grow forsythia shrubs are popular in early spring home gardens and public areas.Harbingers of spring, the cheerful yellow flowers of forsythia are a sure sign ...

Q: I have a forsythia bush and for the last couple of years it hasn’t bloomed. Sometimes it only gets a couple flowers when it does bloom. Do you know the reason for this and what I could do?

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, that they crowd and shade ...

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 ...

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, that they crowd and shade ...