@gardening.with.ish: Would this yellow flowered shrub be ok to grow in your garden? A hardy and fast growing plant, the forsythia can get big! It can easily grow to up to 2 metres tall (or 7ft) and those yellow flowers aren’t around all year round and if left unkept, it can spread. But what you can get is luscious thick green foliage in summer, a dense shrub you can shape and an amazing floral display in spring, drought tolerant plant that works well in costal towns and years of joy. Sometimes the fastest growing isn’t the best though #gardeningtips #forsythia #yellowflowers #planttips #shrubs

Ruth Mastroianni :

My Forsythia is very hardy and grow faster. she’s in full sun, I pruned very hard after spring and she grow tall and big.

GroovyG :

Mine is huge lol

Brian Fulghum :

My opinion is these bloom wayyyyy too early and then look straggly the rest of the year. Plant some limelight hydrangeas instead

MisterGreenThumbz :

Since most of forsythias native range is in China if you live in the US I highly suggest buying a native witch hazel (such as Hamamelis virginiana). Witch hazels also have a beautiful yellow early spring flower display but will provide habitat and food source for our ecosystem and native insects 💚

Mrs. M :

It’s invasive!

Michelle :

My one is huge!!! It's beautiful for about 10 minutes in spring time 😁

continuumclay :

My whole 3 acre yard is lined in this! It grows like crazy, so great privacy!

Sanam Mahmood :

This plant drives me mad

Wrecky Becky :

We bought a house that already had one of these and it's already huge - we assumed it was a tree not a shrub because it's like 2-3m tall. Can we trim it right back? It's a bit leggy if it's supposed to be more shrublike, how harshly can I prune it and when?

queenie :

I’ve taken lots of cuttings and they do really well and root easily 😁

Lily-Tock :

Do not do it. Mine is 25 foot tall 😏

ᴍᴇᴏᴡᴅᴀʟɪɴᴀ :

PRUNE IN SPRING WHEN??????? AFTER IT FLOWERS????

danielle_2410 :

Can they handle being cut back a lot? Mine has started to flower but is about 6/7 feet tall 🙈

Metropolis 🔮 :

gogurl :

they don't have pollen, so not great for bees and insects

lombardi-1963 :

Have I been saying it wrong? We woukd call it a for-Cynthia.

katia_plantscientist :

They’re beautiful springtime flowers and they look quite attractive when left to makes a big tangled whorl of yellow. I didn’t know they spread easily via fragmentation though.

Louise Lack :

In winter the bottom of my garden floods (brook) would this be ok for 10+ days in and out of water? We have bamboo, mulberry bush, flamingo tree, nightshade and eucalyptus that are all ok with it

Nanna :

I have one it’s beautiful

sue.Homefields :

One of my least favourite! Every garden in the 70s had one 😳

Rustic Goblin :

Any recommendations for heavy clay soil that doesn't get a whole lot of sun?

Moth ma’am :

We have it as a natural fence. Don’t plant it anywhere you don’t want an entire wall

🐨Koalapied🥧 :

Sounds practically invasive. And hard to remove.

AndrewH :

What's this called please

ND :

is it easy to propagate then ? my neighbour have one that I always admired