Forsythia 'Northern Gold'
Sponsor
Kindly sponsored by
Monique Gudgeon, Sculpture by the Lakes
Credits
Owen Johnson (2022)
Recommended citation
Johnson, O. (2022), 'Forsythia 'Northern Gold'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Forsythia 'Arnold Dwarf'
- Forsythia europaea
- Forsythia 'Fontanna'
- Forsythia 'Ford Freeway'
- Forsythia giraldiana
- Forsythia 'Gold Splash'
- Forsythia 'Golden Times'
- 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 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 3
RHS Hardiness Rating H7
Felicitas Svedja experimented with forsythia breeding at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, from 1960 (Cadic 1988); ‘Northern Gold’, a hybrid of F. europaea with F. ovata ‘Ottawa’, was selected by Dexter Sampson for its rich gold flowers (Dirr 2009), which are ‘pin-eyed’. The plant itself is hardy to USDA zone 3 (Stewart 2021). Though bred for use in very harsh climates (it is hardy to USDA zone 3 (Stewart 2021)) ‘Northern Sun’ flowers well as a young plant at Sculpture by the Lakes, Dorset, in conditions equivalent to zone 9 (M. Gudgeon pers. comm.) and is available in the UK from Bluebell Nursery (RHS 2020).