Plant: Show Off® Forsythia
Forsythia · Forsythia x intermedia 'Mindor'
$36.00
Size: 2 gal
Light
Full Sun
Mature size
10 ft tall12 ft wide
More about this plant
A fast-growing, dense forsythia, about 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, covered in bright yellow bell-shaped flowers on bare arching stems in early spring. Leaves turn gold in fall. It takes full sun or part shade, tolerates drought, salt, pollution and poor soil, and suits borders, hedges and mass plantings.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A fast-growing, dense forsythia, about 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, covered in bright yellow bell-shaped flowers on bare arching stems in early spring. Leaves turn gold in fall. It takes full sun or part shade, tolerates drought, salt, pollution and poor soil, and suits borders, hedges and mass plantings.
- Flowers
- Abundant bright yellow bell-shaped flowers on bare arching stems in early spring.
- Foliage
- Opposite lanceolate green leaves, toothed on the upper half, hairless, turning gold and sometimes purplish in fall.
- Fruit
- Small two-celled brown capsule with winged seeds; not ornamental.
- Bark & stems
- Light brown bark; stems are brown to copper, square with four ridges and conspicuous lenticels.
- Pruning
- Prune the oldest stems right after spring flowering; pruning after mid-July removes next spring's flower buds.
- Native range
- Garden hybrid of Forsythia suspensa and Forsythia viridissima.
