The March display of forsythia is so bright and cheerful: greedy me, I've always wanted to double it. Forsythia is at the north (roadside) edge of our yard, in a nice long line - challenged by locust trees and upstart sumac and pokeweed that needs digging out every year. I make the roadside of that line a service drive into the property for when trucks need to get back to the well or the propane tank. Finally, fall 2009, I did plant (with much help from a friend!) a parallel line of another couple dozen forsythia, so that the drive will be between the rows of shrubs. I buy plants such as these in quantity from Greenwood Nursery and have had good luck with them. They were the source of all my lilacs, for example. (Seems McMinnville, TN and area have a number of growers that sell in quantity online, very reasonably.) Now I can see little yellow blossoms all along the slender stalks planted 4 months ago. Can you see the tiny dots of yellow? Nice reward for the labor, and gives hope that in another two or three years, there'll be a very golden display out here.
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