It's yellow. What's not to like? Hide it behind a pretty thing so that only the yellow shows. An elephant would have a job getting to mine it's hidden behind so many things.
Is there a variety of forsythia called Lebensraum because I think that’s what is growing in our garden. It’s a monster, and a pretty vulgar one at that but it creates a good screen for a composting area/builder’s yard which sits behind.
Yello daffodils and forsythia in bloom at the same time as pink cherry blossom. Is there a more gaudy, unwelcome colour combination?
If forsythia were a gentle primrose-yellow, I wouldn't find them offensive but they're sooo tooo inyerface yellow for spring. I know tete-a-tete are just as yellow as forsythia and bluebells are just as blue as ceanothus but logic and the curmudgeon sometimes have only a passing acquaintance.
If it's willing to grow here, then I'll find a place for it. Ceanothus always puts me in mind of liquorice allsorts. It won't grow here. Forsythia is brash, for sure. It's still trying to decide whether it will grow here or not. It won't be molly-coddled - it's in one of the windiest parts of my very windy garden. If it will survive there it will be most welcome, however yellow it is.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I like my forsythia. They were here before me so not sure of the variety but I think they're suspensa - lighter coloured flowers than most, and the branches have a graceful arching habit. I don't like forsythia clipped into blobs.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
It's such a hard yellow and all too often planted with a pink flowering currant which is just dreadful. Both plants also look very dull for the other 52 weeks of the year so no place for them here. I like yellow - gorgeous golden autumn daffs are coming out now and I have Lemon Queen and a range of yellows, orange and bronze in the sunflowers but modern forsythia yellow is just not for me.
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An elephant would have a job getting to mine it's hidden behind so many things.
Yello daffodils and forsythia in bloom at the same time as pink cherry blossom. Is there a more gaudy, unwelcome colour combination?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That's Forsythia x intermedia
This is the forsythia you want ... not brash at all, but pretty and elegant
https://www.wtgn.co.uk/shrub/forsythia-suspensa-nymans.html
A delight underplanted with scillas, primroses, and wood anemones ... how can you not love that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.