Mystery large shrub covered in yellow flowers in spring?
tlbean2004
7 years ago
These shrubs line the drive way near my work. They are deciduous. They are covered with yellow flowers in the spring for a short time and then the green leaves start emerging. They bloomed a couple of weeks ago here in zone 7B. What are they? There seem to get kind of large...
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agodo they look like this when they bloom?..I bought this one last fall for $1..from your description it sounds like forsynthias..
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Comments (13)Yellow attracts more insects, including pollinators. Yellow reflects a lot of light rays so more insects are attracted to it. If you notice, the spring rose growth which traditionally has more aphid activity tends to be the more yellow-green. Of course, you'll find the buggers on virtually all colors, but they seem to hit the more yellow ones first. I will NOT wear yellow while gardening because it attracts insects of all types. Sticky traps are most commonly yellow as are fly no pest strips. My theory is that flower and foliage color is most successful in the symbiotic relationship between the plants and insects. Kim...See MoreFive favorite spring flowers?
Comments (19)If I lived in a warmer climate I'd have a dogwood tree. Early and prolific flowers and so beautiful - one of my favs. Our spring is very late here in zone 3 but my first perennial to bloom (probably late April, early May) is always Leopard's Bane, then Siberian Iris, and Johnny Jump-ups, by then I usually have a few annuals in the ground for color, then in June the early summer perennials (bleeding heart, bearded iris, lady's mantle, peony, mountain bluet, columbine, Jacob's ladder, poppies, etc. finally start blooming. So my favs are *anything* that's blooming! ;-) Almost all hardy plants are favs here. I really should plant some bulbs and may in my new garden altho have a lot of squirrels and chipmunks so that eliminates a few even if I go to the trouble of covering them with mesh. I have a few lilac bushes which have never flowered as the deer always "prune" them but we put mesh around them last fall so hopefully I'll see some blooms either this year or next depending on how much they were "pruned" last summer. *rolleyes* I love watching the deer but they are not my friends when they jump the fence into my house yard and eat my plants....See MoreMystery Shrub
Comments (4)Thank you so much! It's been driving me crazy trying to figure out what it was. Google was no help in this instance. Now I just have to find a pink flowering one. Those are prettier! :-)...See MoreThis shrub had little yellow flowers in the spring
Comments (10)I don't think of forsythia having a place in any traditional japanese garden. That said, I have a forsythia standard in my back yard, where I have tried to incorporate the japanese style. But, in general, when I think forsythia, I think of it as being more of a european garden thing. I wish I knew where to find a variegated forsythia like that. The one in question could also be pruned into a multi-trunked tree....See Morewaynedanielson
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