Hello Jack, if you want to know what an unpruned Forsythia looks like, I have one. It's some way behind the daffodils though. It's well taller than me and wide in all directions. Every now and then it's had a light trim with a hedgecutter. But they do get tatty in the middle and very dense. Flowering not as lush. I have a smaller one too which has been pruned and has better flowers, more ornamental. We wanted the big one to get big as it's a big garden.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks Bob, it's good to get any bit of advice I can at the moment.
Busy Lizzie, that is a big garden! Beautiful. That's a nice example of the Forsythia, yes, I want it to grow as big as possible really, I suppose I'll just keep an eye on it and tend to it if it seems to start looking tatty.
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Hello Jack, if you want to know what an unpruned Forsythia looks like, I have one. It's some way behind the daffodils though. It's well taller than me and wide in all directions. Every now and then it's had a light trim with a hedgecutter. But they do get tatty in the middle and very dense. Flowering not as lush. I have a smaller one too which has been pruned and has better flowers, more ornamental. We wanted the big one to get big as it's a big garden.
Thanks Bob, it's good to get any bit of advice I can at the moment.
Busy Lizzie, that is a big garden! Beautiful. That's a nice example of the Forsythia, yes, I want it to grow as big as possible really, I suppose I'll just keep an eye on it and tend to it if it seems to start looking tatty.
Cheers.