Re: 'Gold Tide' Forsythia

Is it planted to deep? Maybe a move is in order..

Donna

--- Theresa <tchessie1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> It is rather pathetically shrimpy- maybe 24 inches
> and only a few 
> branches.  Just sad all the way around.
> 
> Theresa
> 
> Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
> 
> >>I have some kind of small forsythia out front that
> I've had for at least 
> >>3 yeas.  It is rather annoying, it has grown very
> little, but looks 
> >>perfectly healthy.  But my real complaint is that
> it only has about 3-4 
> >>flowers on it each year.  Not too exciting.  As
> things get more crowded, 
> >>it may have a shortened life-span in my garden...
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Hi Theresa,
> >
> >   How tall is it?
> >
> >   If they get too dense inside and don't have new
> growth you won't have
> >   nearly as many flowers; I sometimes find that
> cutting out the old 
> >   wood to rejuvenate it, well, rejuvenates it.  :)
> >
> >Chris
> >
>
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