Before you pull out any of your must-have gardening tools, it's important to understand why you need to be careful pruning the forsythia in the summer, how to properly prune the shrub to maintain ...

Forsythia is a tough plant and the first common ... Problem is that I’m mostly moderate to dense shade. During the summer there are spots in my yard that will see maybe one hour of direct ...

Trimming Forsythia in the late summer or fall will cut down on the number of blossoms next spring because the buds set on “old wood,” and if you remove that old wood later this season ...

The forsythia (named after 18th-century Scottish ... "I do sell them throughout the summer, and I carry it year-round. It's a plant everybody knows." ...

So at the latest, gardeners ideally should aim to have pruned any kind of spring-flowering shrub before the arrival of summer in June. How do you prune a forsythia? If you have a young forsythia ...

Add mulch to retain moister and amend the soil. Give your forsythia at least two inches of water a week, fertilizei n spring and summer and prune when it's finished blooming. Take spring cuttings ...

And don’t wait too long, because forsythia is among those shrubs that make flower buds the year before they actually open into flowers. Delay pruning too long and those buds will not have time ...

If you haven't seen leaves since last summer, I'd say these guys are goners ... The problem turned out to be long-buried road bed. Since forsythia is such a sturdy plant -- really, you can ...

When I hired a couple of college students last summer to tackle some overgrown areas of the yard, I asked them to hack the forsythia bushes to the ground. It took them less than an hour using hand ...

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 top and the sides are ...