Show Off Forsythia
Forsythia x intermedia ‘Mindor’ · a compact forsythia
A compact forsythia packed with bright yellow flowers from base to tip of every stem in early spring, small enough for foundation beds that the full-size shrub outgrows, and its cut stems force well indoors. Prune right after it blooms, never in fall, or you lose next spring's flowers.
- Mature size
- 5 × 5 ft
- 1.5 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Show Off Forsythia at its mature size
A mature Show Off Forsythia grows 3 to 6 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, Clemson Extension, rhs.org.uk, naturehills.com.
Through the year
What Show Off Forsythia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Feb
Bare upright tan-brown stems.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Upright leafless stems packed from base to tip with bright yellow bell flowers.
In leaf · May–Oct
Upright stems with medium green lance leaves.
Fall · Nov
Leaves still mostly green, some muted yellow-green or faintly purplish, holding late.
Growing Show Off Forsythia
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Foundation planting and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Show Off Forsythia, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Show Off Forsythia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
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Border ForsythiaAll drawn to the same scale.