Spring has arrived in Indiana. My daffodils have started blooming and I have started ridding flower beds of winter debris and last year's dried stalks.
Some Proven Winners Show Off Forsythia will find a new home in my garden this spring, just as soon as the danger of freeze is gone. Yellow reinvigorates me after a long winter. If your forsythia is blooming, enjoy it for a few more days. If you plan to reduce the size of your forsythia by pruning, the right time is after it blooms. That gives the plant all summer to grow and create bud for next year. If you wait until the end of the season to prune, you will trim the new buds and you will have little or no bloom in the spring of 2010.
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Remember, many woody flowering plants bloom on old wood. Another old wood bloomer I love is the lilac. The buds on my Miss Kim Lilac (a dwarf) are beginning to swell. I'm expecting beautiful blooms next month.
Again, trim lilacs after the bloom fades to ensure spring 2010 blooms!
