Forsythia 'Golden Times'
Sponsor
Kindly sponsored by
Monique Gudgeon, Sculpture by the Lakes
Credits
Owen Johnson (2022)
Recommended citation
Johnson, O. (2022), 'Forsythia 'Golden Times'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Forsythia 'Golden Times Allgold'
Other taxa in genus
- Forsythia 'Arnold Dwarf'
- Forsythia europaea
- Forsythia 'Fontanna'
- Forsythia 'Ford Freeway'
- Forsythia giraldiana
- Forsythia 'Gold Splash'
- Forsythia 'Happy Centennial'
- Forsythia 'Helios'
- Forsythia × intermedia
- Forsythia japonica
- Forsythia 'Kanárek'
- Forsythia × kobendzae
- Forsythia koreana
- Forsythia likiangensis
- Forsythia 'Little Renee'
- Forsythia 'Maluch'
- Forsythia × mandshurica
- Forsythia 'Meadowlark'
- Forsythia nakaii
- Forsythia 'New Hampshire Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Sun'
- Forsythia ovata
- Forsythia 'Paulina'
- Forsythia 'Princeton Gold'
- Forsythia 'Robusta'
- Forsythia saxatilis
- Forsythia 'Spring Beauty'
- Forsythia 'Spring Gold'
- Forsythia suspensa
- Forsythia 'Tremonia'
- Forsythia × variabilis
- Forsythia 'Verfors'
- Forsythia viridissima
- Forsythia 'Winterthur'
- Forsythia 'Yatgold'
USDA Hardiness Zone 6
RHS Hardiness Rating H5
A popular variegated forsythia whose long, lanceolate leaves flush yellow; some remain gold but others turn green with a creamy margin. The foliage can scorch in bright sun (Edwards & Marshall 2019). The habit is relatively compact and autumn colour in the south-eastern United States can be purple (Dirr 2009). It is a shy-flowering plant (Edwards & Marshall 2019), and its flower-buds can also be killed by only 20°C of frost (Stewart 2021). It is ‘thrum-eyed’.
In the United States ‘Golden Times’ is generally accepted as a cultivar of the Chinese F. giraldiana, a rare species in cultivation – an origin suggested by its long leaves but not by the rich gold of its flowers. Michael Dirr suggests that it originated in France (Dirr 2009), and contemporary French nurseries tend to list it as a clone of the common F. × intermedia.