Last spring our forsythia was a sad bloomer so I took a pruner to it in hopes that totally new growth would equal lots of flowers. Here's last year's post so you can see how it looked then.
Well this year it had even fewer blooms! Argh!
It was as though each stalk if it was lucky got to have a bloom or two.
Now what to do?
We didn't plant this and to dig it out would be a tough job as the trunks are thick.
Maybe next year it will recover?
...if flowers are what are important, always prune right after the plant flowers. Pruning late in the year removes flower buds that have already formed.
ReplyDeleteSome things don’t seem to work in some places for some reason. (That’s a lot of somes.)
ReplyDeleteFollow Tom’s advice. He’s the horticulturalist.
ReplyDeleteTom's right. I would leave it be this year and see what it does next. It may just take a bit for it to be vibrant again. Pruning it was the right thing to do, though.
ReplyDeleteOh, and ours bloomed poorly this year, but we pruned it a bit too late last spring. That, plus the drought.
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