Anybody’s forsythia blooming?
Mine just came out this week - about two weeks later than normal I think.
Ours is blooming, but sparser than in other years. I do love the intense yellow color, though!
Ours is a trifle sparse as well, but it's the first spring since we transplanted them. I'm thrilled they made it through the winter.
Nearly ready. Still in the budding stage but I have seen some open forsythia during my walks around town.
Hmm. Also noticed that I apparently can't upload pictures from Chrome on an iPhone. Will have to try later when a real computer is around.
Ours is in full bloom now. A fair amount of deadwood, which I am removing and a lacier look than in years past.
Mine have been rather wimpy in recent years and I'm thinking that I need to be more diligent about pruning. How far back do you cut and when? (Right after the bloom ends?)
I cut out the dead wood as soon as the plant blooms, so I can tell where the dead spots are. Then cut back and thin.
Yeah, the Forsythia is blooming, but not in our yard.
When I was about 15, I spent a whole day clearing out a bed of Forstyhias, which had not been pruned or thinned for about 30 years. That sorta dimmed my interest in that shrub.
I challenge everyone to figure out how long ago that was (everyone who guesses too high are crossed off my guest list).
You guys are reminding me that I need to cut back our roses before they start blooming. I also have to prune a very scraggly lilac just off the front porch. Anyone know the best way to prune a lilac? It's kind of leggy and blooms sparsely. 
The first step is always to remove any dead branches from the plant. If the plant is leggy, you want to encourage more growth lower down on the plant. The best way I have found to do that is to try and reduce the height of the plant while keeping at least some growth on the branches you retaining. You may also want to thin out some of the more scraggly branches entirely and remove branches that are crossing others.
OK, that is pretty standard stuff. But I think maybe I won't do it, since we will have moved by the time it is blooming, and we will have a ton of work going on with unpacking at the new house and getting my mother's house ready for some cosmetic work and putting it on the market. Lilac low on the list.
But now this has me thinking about planting a row of lilacs and forsythia along a lengthy fence between us and the neighbors on one side.
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