Deeproot Plant Base Online - Forsythia suspensa 'Taff's Arnold'

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botanical name:
Forsythia suspensa 'Taff's Arnold'

family: Oleaceae

characteristics: shrub
height: 2.50m width: 2.50m
growth rate: medium
growth habit: bushy
leaf colour: yellow & green
flower colour: yellow
main period of interest: Spring

growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil, clay soil
prefered soil pH: any
minimum temperature: -29°C
USDA zone: 5 to 9

description:
Prolific, bright yellow flowers in spring, on bare branches. Creamy yellow variegated foliage in summer, later giving good, purple tinged autumn colours.

cultivation:
Any moderately fertile, moist, well drained soil in full sun or light dappled shade. 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:
Introduced iby Steven Taffler from the Arnold Arboretum.