New and Unread Tree-Mails
| Plant Habit: | Shrub |
| Life cycle: | Perennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic |
| Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
| Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) |
| Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
| Plant Height: | 2 to 3 feet |
| Plant Spread: | 4 to 7 feet |
| Leaves: | Deciduous |
| Flowers: | Showy Blooms on old wood |
| Flower Color: | Yellow |
| Flower Time: | Late winter or early spring |
| Pollinators: | Various insects |
| Miscellaneous: | Tolerates poor soil Monoecious |
| Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Apr 11, 2019 2:01 PM This low growing shrub is not used as much as it used to be in 1960's into the 1990's in the Midwest and East USA, but it is still offered by some conventional and mail order nurseries. It forms a high groundcover of arching stems that hit the ground and root. I don't recommend it as it gets to be a messy tangle of stems as time goes on. It usually does not bloom well with its pale yellow or greenish-yellow flowers. It has no real fall colour. It was developed by Dr. Sax at the Arnold Arboretum in 1941 from a cross between the Border Forsythia (F. x intermedia X the Japanese Forsythia (F. japonica saxatilis). [ Reply to this comment | |
