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.
