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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2021-03-23 10:48 p.m., wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:00:01 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
owers 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.
>

It's weird. The stuff grows wild around here. It does well at the
neighbours. A lot of people were disappointed when they rebuilt a
highway overpass in Niagara Falls. The embankment of the old bridge was
covered with Forsythia and in early spring it was a mass of yellow flowers.

OTOH, I have a couple dozen lilac bushes and they all flower beautifully
in the spring.