Forthysia not blooming

[Kayla]

I have a forthysia bush that only gets the odd bloom around the bottom
branches. This has been going on every year. Can someone please give me
some suggestions because all around are beautiful yellow flowering bushes.

Thanks
Lori

[Pennyaline]

How old is your forsythia?

Has it been pruned recently?

[kayla]

It is about 12 years old. Is close to a shed and about 5 ft. tall and
I haven't pruned it. It's kind of just sitting there and not growing.

[Loki]

"kayla" <afwt_hotmail.com@> wrote in message
news:3n3g529ho51vmjpva...@4ax.com...

Forsythia blooms on year old wood. Prune the oldest canes out right now.
If you wait, you'll lose bloom. Don't remove more than a third of the canes
but the ones you do cut get down at ground level.

Do the same next year with a third of the oldest canes and again the year
after.

You should have a beautiful forsythia but it will take some time.

Loki

[Travis M.]

"Kayla" <af...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:CtqdnS3pNbF...@wightman.ca

How much sun is it getting?

Where are you?

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

[kayla]

It's on the norh west corner of the building and we are in Zone 5 mid
western Ontario. It gets the morning and afternoon sun.

[dr-...@wi.rr.xx.com]

we had some forsythia. bloom was erratic. the rabbits were chewing the stems above
the "snow" line. also, there was some winter kill. so I first ordered several
different forsythia, planted em side by side and put a fence around them to keep the
rabbits out. one of these was the best and that one I propagated to fill in when I
whacked out the old ones.
go to neighbors with great looking forsythia. ask em what they do with em. and ask
for cuttings. root em in a bid of dam soil.
I lived ontario and either you are around TO and it is mild or further north and get
snow every other day in winter and I cant believe you are zone 5, I thought it was a
lot colder than that. Ingrid

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