General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 6 to 10 feet
Plant Spread: 6 to 10 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Cut Flower
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Pollution
Drought tolerant
Salt tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Forsythia

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-05-20
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Mar 20, 2020 2:26 PM concerning plant:
    This is one of the best of the more cold-hardy forsythia cultivars, selected from a hybrid species of the Early (Korean) Forsythia x the European (Albanian) Forsythia. Introduced to the trade in 1982, it is sold by some conventional nurseries in the upper Midwest and other northern areas of the US and in southern Canada.

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