We’re getting alot more rain this spring than we did in March 2006 when the earlier post was written. But, we need the moisture after two very dry, hot summer which have compromised the roots of trees and grasses.   We are nearly 12 inches over normal rainfall for the season and getting more today, plus expecting more next week.  We are hoping for a moist summer when we can experiment with our lessons learned in the Master Gardening program.

I’d better to and work on some forsythia information.  The darling forsythias are sharing their sunshine with the country on a chilly, gray day.  They seem to glow more when the rest of the world is a bit gloomy.

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We have three forsythia bushes at our place and I will try to get more going this year.  One is purely decorative, perched on a high point at one corner of the house.  It happily reaches for drips when we fill a bucket at the outside hydrant or attach a hose. Sometimes we have to trim the longer sweeps back so we can work.

Another marks a corner at the drive and makes a pretty greeting mark for our guests or for when we come home. 

The third is the hardest working. It is huge.  I clip at it to encourage that huge-ness.  It sits between my house and a gravel road, stopping an incredible amount of dust.  If I have any success with the new starts that I have awaiting spring,  I will have more of these bushes out there between me and the dust.

You can read more about forsythia culture and history, plus see a few more pictures back at The Legacy Gardens page for Forsythia.

             Thank you for coming by to read my post.  These posts and the articles are being written as part of a community service assignment through the Master Gardener program.  JudyAnn Lorenz