Why Do I Grow Forsythia For Wildlife?
If you walked into my garden you would see a burst of bright yellow sunshine from one shrub in particular. Yet the forsythia shrub isn't one that fills most gardeners' hearts with delight. It is so very common and for much of the year is simply a green shrub. However, for me, it signifies one of the joys of Spring. It never fails, it has beautiful bright yellow blooms on bare branches, it lives happily and healthily with little attention from me in our mixed hedge alongside a lot of competition for food and water, yet it has never become a thug in the garden. All I need to do is to prune it once a year immediately after flowering and for the rest of the year, I pretty much forget about it. Why do I grow Forsythia? I have one forsythia we inherited with the garden and one we planted from my Mum's garden. Well for the few weeks of that bright yellow bloom, I just love it and it shines out so much at this time of year, a beautiful burst of sunshin...