{"id":6673,"date":"2020-03-21T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2020-03-21T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:18:13","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-62-forsythia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/plant-a-day-2020-day-62-forsythia\/","title":{"rendered":"PLant-A-Day 2020 (Day 63) Forsythia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We bought our house in 1995 and there weren\u2019t many plants on the property at the time. We decided to add a pond next to the garage soon after moving in so there was much digging to be done. Somehow in the midst of all that mess and madness, I remember digging up a little stick that was barely alive and barely recognizable as a Forsythia start. It was about a foot tall at the time and had just one sad little branch. I jammed it quickly into a hole at the front of the garden and forgot about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut to 2020 and here is that little stick today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year, the show is particularly bright and cheerful. The shrub tops out at over seven feet tall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know which clone this is\u2013maybe Lynwood Gold. Yellow-gold is a tough color for me to deal with in the garden. I have some awful deeply inherent bias against yellow flowers. But I\u2019m glad I\u2019ve made an exception with this plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My 2020 plan for this plant will be to prune it back to about five feet tall after it is finished flowering. It doesn\u2019t ask for much else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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