On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:00:01 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
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> I have had forsythia for decades and they rarely bloom. I might get as
> few as a dozen flowers on each bush. One year I got fed up with one of
> them and cut it right down to the ground. I was going to dig it up and
> throw it out but it started to grow again and actually produce a lot of
> flowers the next year, but later went back down hill.
>
> A friend of mine offered me one of her Forsythia buses a few years ago.
> All I had to do was go to her place and dig it up. It was in bloom at
> the time. The next year it blossomed, but the year after that it was a
> dismal failure.
>
I'm not sure what the problem could be with your forsythia, maybe they need
some sort of fertilizer. But I do know they only like to be trimmed right after
they bloom. Crepes myrtles like to be trimmed in the winter time if you keep
them in bush form, which I do.