StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Forsythia

Pleased to see these, I thought the drought/heat last summer might have caused problems ... this rather spindly Forsythia is a direct progeny [tip-rooted cutting] from a plant at my childhood home, via three previous plants - including one at my parents-in-law's house. If the rabbits will leave it alone, I shall have another attempt at producing at least one offsprung [if not two, as the one at my late father's house died just after he did].

My family has had this Forsythia bush for many decades and grown it in the gardens at several homes. Each time we planned to move house, a branch would be weighted down to "layer" it into a pot, rooting would take a couple of months. The "new" plant would then move house with us. This specimen is currently pot-grown and is the latest plant to have moved in the way described, as well as supplying my parents-in-law with an off-spring. I intend to try for another two off-spring this year. One to plant out here and another for my brother, who is living in my late father's place. The one that I originally grew for my father died several years before he did.

Top growth of my potted Forsythia.