Great Grandma’s Pants!
Forsythia and Rhododendrons are both icons of spring.I have a soft spot for both of them. Rhododendrons remind me of Swat and portland.There was a big bank of Forsythia outside the naval observatory in madison, so I always feel a bit homesick when I see them. However, the logic that would plant them next to each other … escapes me.
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October 7th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Maybe they were planted by someone who came from a place where the forsythia is the very first thing to bloom in the spring, and is long gone by the time the rhododendron blossoms appear. That’s my memory of northern Ohio (where one could grow both rhododendron and forsythia.) I don’t remember seeing as much rhododendron in Wisconsin, probably because of the winters. Perhaps with the march northward of the climate zones, that is changing. Whatever it is, my forsythia is very confused – it blooms in the fall now sometimes, pretending to be witch hazel.