I've just become the proud owner of a Forsythia. Determined not to let your comments put me off. So pleased with the fact it flowered in its first year although it is only 2 feet. I bought it to provide privacy in an open spot so hope it grows fast and big. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Thank goodness I read this before I went to the garden centre to morrow to buy one. I think it's the first big hit of spring colour and that it might hide my ugly water butt. But I won't buy one now - you've put me off. Of dear.
I too have dug out the dreaded plant, but for some reason it just keeps coming back. You are right it is a loathsome plant, and clashes with everything else it happens to grow next to.
I love Forsythia in Spring. It is just the happy shrub we need at this time of year. But, it must be pruned properly and not sheared like a privet hedge. My neighbour has a beautiful large specimen in his garden (and nothing else). I see it as I'm sitting at the PC every day. Mind you, I don't think he ever prunes it and therefore it has its natural shape.
Forsythia is a sunny, beautiful plant. If you dig it up, you will not only lose the vibrant, yellow flowers, you will also lose the elegant, trailing foliage which turns to a fabulous maroon shade in the autumn. Great for harvest festival flower pedestals. The leaves are a perfect foil for the orange and golds of autumn flowers. Chimonanthus is only useful for winter scent. The rest of the time it looks ill. I am just about to dig it up and plant something with more than one season of interest.
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But what I do like is that the sight of it heralds soon to be warmer weather.
Chimonanthus is only useful for winter scent. The rest of the time it looks ill. I am just about to dig it up and plant something with more than one season of interest.
Wouldn't do for us all to be alike, would it?