This is the second
spring without many blossoms on my forsythia. We moved here 4 years ago and there were two over grown, old forsythia bushes in our yard. I removed a third of each bush (old branches) after they bloomed the first and second year. The next year, I just trim some branches back so it was easier to mow around. Last
spring I trimed it back again after the few blooms I did get were finished. It grows like a bad
weed and has lots of leaf buds, but very few
flowers. The
flowers appear on new growth, but only a few blossoms per branch. I like the wilder appearance of the bushes and do not touch it after a trim rigjt after blooming. I am a novice gardener and consult books about triming
plants and they all said to trim back after blossoming and to trim out a third of the old growth. How can I get these bushes to
flower like they did the first
spring we were here?