Lynwood Gold Forsythia Shrub

One of the earliest, brightest signals that winter is over — Lynwood Gold lights up the spring landscape with arching branches packed in deep golden-yellow blooms.

Lynwood Gold (Forsythia x intermedia) is a fast-growing, upright deciduous shrub prized for the four-petaled, bell-shaped flowers that open along its bare stems before the leaves appear. The bloom show is dense and saturated — a true rich gold rather than a pale lemon — and it arrives in early spring when little else is awake. After flowering, clean green foliage fills in for a tidy, full hedge through summer, often picking up purple-bronze tones in fall. Reaching 8 to 10 feet tall and wide with a graceful, fountaining habit, it makes a generous screen, an informal hedge, or a single dramatic focal point.

Why growers choose the Lynwood Gold Forsythia

• Earliest color of the season. It blooms in early spring, ahead of most flowering shrubs, marking the turn of the year with a wall of gold.
• Heavy, saturated bloom. Flowers crowd the entire length of each branch for a dense display, not a scattered one.
• Fast and forgiving. A vigorous, fast grower that fills space quickly and tolerates a wide range of soils once established.
• Cold-hardy and dependable. Reliable through USDA zones 4 to 8, shrugging off hard winters and returning to flower year after year.
• Low-fuss landscape backbone. Adaptable, deer-tend-to-pass, and easy to shape into a hedge or let arch naturally.

Use Lynwood Gold as a fast privacy screen along a property line, a flowering informal hedge, the bold back layer of a mixed border, or a stand-alone specimen on a slope or bank where its arching branches can spill. Cut stems also force beautifully indoors for early bouquets.