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botanical name:
Forsythia ovata

common name: Early Forsythia, Korean Forsythia
family: Oleaceae

characteristics: shrub
height: 1.50m width: 1.50m
growth rate: medium
growth habit: bushy
leaf colour: green
flower colour: yellow
stem/bark colour: brown
main period of interest: Spring

growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil, clay soil
prefered soil pH: any
minimum temperature: -35°C
USDA zone: 4 to 8

description:
Low growing bushy deciduous shrub with a very twiggy habit and ovate green leaves. Deep yellow flowers in late winter or early spring on the bare branches. Not as free flowering as some, but the earliest.

cultivation:
Any moderately fertile, moist, well drained soil in full sun or light dappled shade. Very hardy. Easy to grow and not fussy.
Prune after flowering, reducing new shoots and cut back some of the old shoots to the base.

propagation:
Greenwood cuttings in late spring or semi-ripe cuttings in late summer.

other notes:
Native to Korea.