PETITTI Forsythia Spotlight | Grow For Spring Color, Deer Resistance & Cut Flowers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Forsythia are an old-fashioned favorite with an attractive, upright spreading form. They are excellent, fast-growing shrubs, ideal for hedge planting, mixed borders, and a great backdrop for flowering shrubs and perennials. Watch this video with Noelle, Horticulturist, and Education Director with Petitti Garden Centers, to learn more about the benefits of growing Forsythia in your garden. All Forsythia are deer resistant and require very little maintenance but they prefer well-drained soil conditions. Several new varieties are available that grow more compact and are densely covered with flowers from base to tip, including 'Show Off®', 'Show Off Starlett®', and 'Show Off Sugar Baby®'. For your classic look, try 'Lynwood Gold'.
I bought the show off sugar baby last week. So pretty!
Loved to have seen variegated typies...
She mentions "deer resistant". Does that mean all of her varieties? I have just about given up on forsythia because of deer.
Thank you for all of this wonderful information! Noelle is ALWAYS amazing as a teacher! Is Forsythia disease resistant and drought tolerant once established?
Forsythia are pretty tough in a lot of respects. Yes they have excellent drought tolerance after their first year of establishment. As for disease, they tend to grow through most problems but may exhibit mildew, leaf spots, crown gall occasionally. Other than pruning out the gall with sanitized pruners they rarely need other treatments.
@@PetittiGardenCenters Great. Thank You!
I have Magical gold in Ca zone 10. So even warmer climates can relish in it's gold color!
Hi Noelle, I planted a PW Show Off last spring, and it’s just now budding out this year. Over the summer it developed one very tall leader branch, much taller than all the other branches. After blooming should I prune back that one branch to the size of the others or should it be left as is?
Yes, after blooming, it is up to you, but it sounds like taking your outlier branch down to the height of the other branches will make the entire shrub look more uniform.
I bought a show off sugar baby last week. So pretty!