Forsythia - still at it!

After spending the weekend at the cabin there are a number of posts to catch up on, but since the forsythia is still in bloom, I thought I might start with that. We bought these three at the Home Depot in H-burg (the world’s nicest Home Depot – they even helped load the plants in the car!) and planted them in an area of the yard we think we can take back from some ivy that has been growing there, probably for years.

We put them in a group so they could form a nice mass of flowers. Ever since, I’ve fretted about the placement – there are a lot of deciduous trees in that part of the yard, mainly white oaks, and my sense of it was that the forsythias might not be getting enough light to survive in this spot.

We also have a bunch of hostas (they are all over the yard and seem to thrive at the cabin) planted at the base of the trees down here. So we are planning to add in several kinds of ferns once the soil temperature stabilizes at 50 degrees, maybe as soon as next week.

But, clearly I was wrong about the forsythia in this area – if they are finding this a challenging spot, they haven’t shown it so far. And these blooms have been on the plants for more than two weeks – that is about the limit of how long we have them in Alexandria.

In the background of this last photo is the beaver pond – will write a note about it later in the week.