We've had a series of chilly gray days but the forsythia shines out like a good deed in a naughty world -- made an even brighter yellow by the dull backgrounds.
When we first built our house, my sister-in-law ay gave us a forsythia bush which we planted in the front yard and I planted three more -- little more than sticks, along our driveway near the house.It's like Rumpelstiltskin spinning gold from straw, You poke some sticks in dirt, keep them watered, wait a year, and voila -- free gold!