Before you learn how to prune forsythia, consider the age of your shrub. Make sure that you're only pruning an established plant, as younger plants need time to develop naturally.

Pruning timing depends on whether a plant produces flowers. Skip to Article. Set weather. ... When should you prune a forsythia plant? Published: Jan. 13, 2012, 6:30 p.m. By .

The purpose of pruning is to enhance the natural shape of a plant. Forsythia is innately a tall arching shrub, vase or fountain-shaped. Right after it has finished blooming is a good time to prune.

Gardeners with forsythia loaded with flowers have taken the time to correctly prune their shrubs. Unfortunately, some people never prune their forsythia, or if they do, they prune at the wrong ...

So next April's forsythia flowers are ready and waiting. There is simply nothing more to do. You might hope for heavy snows that would bury the plant and by doing so, insulate it from very cold air.

In this stressful spring, we’ve been cheered by the bright blooms of flowering shrubs and ornamental trees such as forsythia, quince, viburnum, lilac, cherry, crabapple and redbud.If these ...

The last option for health pruning is what we call rejuvenation pruning. Suckering shrubs such as forsythia, lilac, and red-stemmed dogwood perform best when they are encouraged to produce new ...

Shrubs are typically classified into three different bloom times: spring, summer, and fall. When they bloom will dictate when the best time to prune them is, if we want to preserve flower buds.

Forsythia bushes are usually the first burst of yellow to show up in Pacific Northwest gardens. The Olympian The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning.

Q: I have a forsythia bush and for the last couple of years it hasn’t bloomed. Sometimes it only gets a couple flowers when it does bloom. Do you know the reason for this and what I could do?

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming.