Forsythia, Border Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold'

This is the most commonly sold cultivar east of the Mississippi. The species is a hybrid of two Chinese species, the Greenstem x the Weep...Read Moreing Forsythias and seems to be sterile. The flowers are borne so heavily, it seems gaudy to me. Like other Forsythia, the bark, buds, and stems are not pretty, and there is no real autumn color, except an ugly purple &yellow&brown. This hybrid is very rampant growing and quickly becomes messy in habit, full of dead twigs and much ugly twigginess. Like its Weeping parent, its stems root along the ground. The summer foliage is dark, shiny green and is alright. This cheap plant is over-valued and over-planted. I have never seen pollinators in the flowers, but maybe some bumblebees might like it. Its only wildlife value is that deer have recently learned to eat the younger foliage and twigs. It is only a one or two season plant.

This is our first growing season with forsythia here in central PA. We put the plant in last Fall. It did beautifully through this first ...Read MoreSpring, even in this poor soil undermined with the roots of big trees. But since the start of July, the leaves have been drooping. The leaves are green, feel the same to the touch, and no leaves have fallen off, but they are drooping. We have been watering it regularly, but that doesn't solve the problem. We'd hate to lose this beautiful plant. We hope someone has ideas we could try.

We have had this plant since 2007 and it is doing well despite my terrible timing in pruning. It would probably want to drape with some ...Read Morestraight canes in the middle, but I hacked it up pretty badly. I had flowers in 2008 since I didn't wack it, none in 2009 since I hacked on it pretty heavily the prior summer. Didn't touch it last fall, so this coming summer, 2010, I hope to have lovely flowers like the first spring after planting, 2008. Also will let it drape now that I know that is its more natural form.

This variety is also available in "tree" form.