Knowing how and when to prune forsythia is critical for keeping this shrub healthy and its spring blooms bountiful. It's among the first shrubs to bloom in landscapes as winter begins to fade, its ...

Q: Should we do something to prepare forsythia bushes now in preparation for upcoming winter? If so, how, what and when should we do this? Mary Rogers, Kalamazoo A: It's interesting this question was ...

This forsythia hedge has very few flowers because the hedge is crowded with invasive trees and the remaining forsythia branches were sheared back in the fall, removing the spring-flowering wood. The ...

Forsythias are deciduous shrubs known for their bright yellow flowers that signal the arrival of early spring. These plants, which belong to the olive family, are hardy and easy to care for, often ...

I got an email from a reader recently and enjoyed the question. Seems that my reader had a hedge of forsythia around a bird bath. While cleaning the bird bath out our reader dumped the bird bath on ...

Natural border ideas for scent and color around the perimeter of your plot ...

* What it is: Forsythia has been a popular landscape shrub for decades for one main reason – its showy golden flowers that open in very early spring before most everything else is even producing ...

Editors Note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.

Proven Winners' new forsythia variety, Show Off, has masses of bright yellow flowers that are much larger than those of older varieties. The shrub is said to be resistant to deer feeding and compact, ...

Christopher de Vinck writes about his amazement at the tenacity of nature to protect its young.