I don't own any but I have them around my city, I saw several of them with gorgeous blooming flowers everywhere I turned. We also did have a warm up back in March and got really cold again in April, that deal messed up with a bunch of things.

I'm referring to bushes throughout upstate NY

I live out in the country where the wind blows mightily and the temps can get down to -10 or lower. It costs me blooms on my forsythia; it has never been really impressive, in my opinion. It's at least 10 years old and I prune it lightly occasionally. This year, I think I'm going to cut it back to a foot tall and see if that makes a difference. It does have a fountain shape to it...maybe 6' tall and 10' wide. Maybe it's time to replace it with a pretty crabapple or something.

Looks like we've lost most of the bloom on our star magnolia too.

My forsythia is planted in an area which gets frost drainage from a large area of hilltop above it. It looses its bloom at least once every three or four years when we have a clear cold spell at the wrong time. When it blooms, its gorgeous, but often its just a greem sprawling shrub.

Forsythia bloom in my area in general was dismal this year. Very sparse if any as I drove around. No bloom on the couple I have.

Thanks for the accounts. Only confirms what I thought happened

As I drove around this year I did notice that there was not a big show. I have the old ones that were in place since the place was built probably 60 yrs ago. Like the the other older homes in the area there was a show not as big as in prior years but a good show. They are not the new improved ones so I have never had a no bloom Spring.

same here in eastern MA. Mine skipped blooming altogether and Ive seen almost none around the area.

my beautiful yellow magnolia got nipped. Some smallish blooms, some black tipped and some blasted entirely.

OToH the tulips and daffs love this cool weather and lasting longer than usual

rginnie(5) If you want lots of blooms cut it back early Spring. As soon as it s done flowering. They bloom on the new growth. I trim mine every year and they are full of flowers every year. The more growth you get in the Spring/summer the more flowers you will get.

not a rare experience at all in my z5 MI ....

ken

I've noticed a poor performance in my area as well this year. Fortunately the Lilac and Cherry buds look promising here (at least in my yard).

Yes!! I thought it was just my bush?? I live in Central Massachusetts and I planted mine last year, I thought I did something wrong because I was looking forward to see how it would look with all the purple flower bulbs I planted in front of it..only to see it never flowered? Good to know I didn't do anything to make it not flower lol