Location Weeping forsythia is native to China. Forsythias do best in well drained soils with supplemental watering during dry spells. Weeping forsythia and its hybrids do best in cooler climates where they can get the required number of chilling hours below 45 degrees. Forsythias sometimes bloom too early in the season causing the flower buds or the flowers themselves to get destroyed by late freezes. Greenwood cuttings taken in spring or early summer are easy to root in moist sand.
Semiripe cuttings taken in later summer also are easy to root.
Usage Use the forsythias in mixed shrub borders, mixed hedges or, better yet, as a specimen shrub so that its long arching canelike stems can be allowed to develop freely. Be sure to give it enough room. Weeping forsythia is often planted at the top of slopes, banks or containment walls so the stems can trail down. They can also be trained up a wall or allowed to grow up and into a tree or large shrub. This is especially attractive on a deciduous shrub or tree, covering it with happy yellow flowers in the very early spring before it gets leaves and flowers of its own.