Light
Full sun to part shade. More sun, more flowers.
Growing guide · Shrubs
Forsythia × intermedia
How to grow Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold'.
The first loud thing in spring.
- Light
- Full sun, part sun
- Water
- Moderate
- Zones
- 5–8
- Size
- 8–10 ft tall and wide
- Spacing
- 6–8 ft apart; 4–5 ft for a hedge.
- Pets
- Not pet-safe; keep out of reach
Water
Weekly the first summer. After that, only in drought.
Planting and soil
Spring or fall, at grade, in average well-drained soil.
Feeding
Rarely needed.
Pruning
Right after flowering, remove a third of the oldest stems at the base. Never shear it into a ball in fall; you'll cut off next spring's flowers.
Through the year
Gold flowers in March or April, green all summer, purple-bronze in fall.
If something's off
Few flowers usually means pruning at the wrong time or too much shade.
Gold, before the leaves.
Bare, arching branches pack themselves with deep gold flowers in early spring, before anything else has woken up. Then it turns into a tidy green hedge for the summer and picks up purple-bronze tones in fall.
Why we stock it: It tells the whole street winter is over.
Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold'from $49.95 · Arrives alive, or we replace it
Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold'from $49.95 · Arrives alive, or we replace it