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Flying Machine® Forsythia koreana

Flower Season
  • Early Spring
  • Spring
Mature Size
8' 6' 2.4m 1.8m
Height: 5' - 8'
Spread: 4' - 6'
Height: 1.5m - 2.4m
Spread: 1.2m - 1.8m
  • Details

    60 - 96 Inches
    72 - 72 Inches
    48 - 72 Inches
    1.5m - 2.4m
    1.8m
    1.2m - 1.8m

    Features

    This variety is no longer available from Proven Winners®. Alternatives include:  Show Off®

    Anything but typical!

    It's easy to understand the charm of forsythia: one of the first plants to bloom in spring, cheerful yellow flowers, super easy to grow. If you're looking to add one of these springtime classics to your garden or landscape, consider one out of the ordinary, like Flying Machine. Its golden-orange flowers positively enormous, making for a striking display on the plant. As they age, they spiral to the ground whole, creating a glowing carpet beneath the plant for an extended display you'll look forward to every year. Flying Machine forsythia also shares the outstanding deer resistance and shade tolerance that makes them so versatile and useful.

    Top reasons to grow Flying Machine forsythia:

    - extra large flowers make for an even showier forsythia

    - blooms fall whole, creating a beautiful gold carpet under the plant

    - shade tolerant and deer resistant

     

    Resists: 
    Deer

    Characteristics

    Plant Type: 
    Shrub
    Shrub Type: 
    Deciduous
    Height Category: 
    Tall
    Garden Height: 
    60 - 96 Inches 1.5m - 2.4m
    Spacing: 
    72 Inches 1.8m
    Spread: 
    48 - 72 Inches 1.2m - 1.8m
    Flower Colors: 
    Yellow
    Foliage Colors: 
    Green
    Foliage Shade: 
    Green
    Habit: 
    Upright
    Container Role: 
    Thriller

    Plant Needs

    Light Requirement: 
    Part Sun to Sun
    Light Requirement: 
    Sun

    The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

    Maintenance Category: 
    Easy
    Blooms On: 
    Old Wood
    Bloom Time: 
    Early Spring
    Bloom Time: 
    Mid Spring
    Hardiness Zones: 
    6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
    Water Category: 
    Average
    Soil Fertility Requirement: 
    Average Soil
    Uses: 
    Border Plant
    Uses: 
    Cut Flower
    Uses: 
    Good for Screening
    Uses: 
    Landscape
    Uses: 
    Mass Planting
    Uses: 
    Specimen or Focal Point
    Uses Notes: 

    This is a very large forsythia that is well suited to landscaping and hedges.

    Maintenance Notes: 

    If needed, prune after flowering. Though it is quite shade tolerant, flowers are most abundant with at least some sun each day.

    Flying Machine® Forsythia koreana 'Sunny'
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    • Fingers crossed that this will thrive as beautifully as the gallon container arrived; however, I ONLY buy (a yard full of purchases) from Proven Winners for a reason: They are PROVEN WINNERS! This arrived full in a perfect little filled in shrub shape and has buds ready to bloom!

      Sharon Rhea Ford
      , South Carolina
      , United States
      , 5 years ago
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