"kayla" afwt_hotmail.com@ wrote in message
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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.



On Tue, 02 May 2006 19:36:44 -0600, Pennyaline
wrote:

Kayla wrote:
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.

How old is your forsythia?

Has it been pruned recently?

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