Spectabilis Forsythia Hedge Plants

Spectabilis Forsythia Hedge Plants

Forsythia intermedia Spectabilis is the most widely grown variety of Forsythia. It makes a wonderful early spring specimen shrub as it's covered in the most gorgeous golden yellow blossom in March and April, lighting up gardens wherever it's grown. It can grow to 4 metres in ideal conditions. For other spring choices, have a look at our full range of hedging.

We only deliver Forsythia barerooted, so delivery is during the planting months of November - April. The sizes are in centimetres above the ground (the roots don't count).

Features

• Specimen shrub or flowering hedge
• Exceptional yellow flowers in March/April
• Simple green foliage in summer, pale bark in winter
• Max Height 4m, can be pruned low.
• Any soil in close to full sun.

Growing Forsythia

Its beauty is unfussy, and it'll grow in most soils and in any location providing it gets sun.

Spacing Forsythia:
As a specimen plant, it likes a bit of room to let it get to full size so allow about a 2m width, although with pruning you can get away with a bit less.
As a flowering hedge, you would plant at 2-3 plants per metre, 33-50cm apart.

If you have the room, grow it in a mixed border or shrubbery and if you are worried that it might look a bit plain after it's flowered, try using it as a host for a smaller clematis which can ramble through its branches and flower, depending on variety, from May onwards.
Underplant the base with snowdrops and you have a 6-8 month show. Fabulous.

History & Trivia

Forsythia x intermedia is a hybrid of F. suspensa and F. viridissima. This particular cultivar was discovered in 1906.