Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Knowing how and when to prune forsythia is critical for keeping this shrub healthy and its spring blooms bountiful. It's among the ...

Forsythia, known for heralding spring, transforms landscapes with its striking yellow blooms that appear even before the foliage. These bright splashes of color provide a welcome contrast to the dull, ...

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Plus, the one plant you should NEVER prune this month.

Like forsythia, flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) produces colorful flowers that will bloom in your garden in early spring. Their pinkish-red flowers (sometimes orange or white, based on the ...

Q: I planted a forsythia about 8 or 9 years ago, and it only produced blooms on the very ends. I have pruned one-third of the old wood all the way back to the ground a few times. This year, I gave up ...

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? A: ...

Dear Carol: I'm hoping you can explain this to me. We have had a forsythia for years. The past few years (at least five) it has had numerous blooms on it in the fall. Why would it have a second ...

Put away your pruners for bigger, healthier blooms.

Is it possible that the forsythia is growing in more shade now? Perhaps a nearby tree has increased in size and spread, and some of its branches are shading the forsythia. Setting masses of flower ...