pruning Forsythia?

Forsythia is in bloom now or nearing the end of its brilliant yellow. Prune immediately after flowering down to good a strong-looking bud at your requisite height. If your plant is mature then it does help maintain its vigour generally if you cut out some of its older shoots right down to ground level each year, this lets more light in to the centre and encourages new growth.

Regards Mike Gilmore WinsfordWalledGarden, SW England

You should avoid pruning a recently planted Forsythia for a few years so that it becomes established first. Pruning them for a natural look comes from removing some old wood right down to the crown (to encourage new basal growth). Each year remove 1/4 to 1/3 of the old wood.

Forsythia flowers on year old wood, so prune them after they flower to encourage new growth for next year's blooms.

You could do some pruning in the winter and save the removed branches for forcing into bloom. Also, you can prune out suckers anytime you want to limit the girth of the shrub.

what he says. by cutting out some old growth each year it will bloom well each spring. Ingrid

"Mike Gilmore" wrote: Prune>immediately after flowering down to good a strong-looking bud at your

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Thanks, everyone, for the advice. The plant is about