On Jul 1, 11:07 pm, "Bob F" wrote:
My friend has a plant that is growing up to 10 feet high. She is
wondering if she could cut it back to maybe a foot high this next
winter, and expect it to survive and hopefully thrive and flower as a
somewhat smaller plant. Does anyone know if forsythia can handle this
kind of abuse?

Bob

Oh geez, yeah. An overexuberant 11 year old pruned the huge forsythia
down the street back to a 6 foot wide collection of vertical sticks
and one green shoot about a month ago. It's already leafing out again.