Turns out there are lots of you out there who think forsythia is a vulgar invasive noxious weed. Who knew? I still think it's pretty.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
"While life yet lasts, laughter and molasses." — Mexican saying
Porcupine Pie - Neil Diamond - listen now
Posts
Tweet Tweet Tweet
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(188)
-
▼
April
(18)
- Attention: Mother-Writers
- Parents Magazine Podcast
- Wallpaper Murder Mystery
- Picnic Plates
- Spring, part four
- Time Zones?
- Website Makeover
- Interview with Betsy McNair
- Spring, part three
- Forsythia Haters
- Spring, part two
- Margaret Roach's New Garden Blog
- Inspirational Quote of the Day
- Next up: James Collins
- In Praise of Lillet Blanc
- Spring
- San Miguel de Allende Vacation Raffle
- Fragrance & Film Festival
-
▼
April
(18)
Sites of Interest
- A Life Divided
- A Life in Paris (w/Two Boys and a Wife)
- A Way to Garden
- Berkshire Creative
- Bitten
- Casa Wabi Sabi
- Chronicle Books Blog
- Eating From The Ground Up
- Epicurious
- Ericka Lutz Blog
- Food Food Body Body
- Go Fug Yourself
- Hello! Lucky
- I Heart Farms
- Leigh Hyams
- Lululand
- Mappa Mundi
- Married...with dinner
- Media Bistro
- MommyDaddies
- Notes From the Island
- Readerville
- ReadingWritingLiving
- Rebecca Flowers Blog
- Rural Intelligence
- Splatto Festival
- Squandered Heritage
- Tales from the Park Side
- The Kittalog
- The Psychopedia, or How to Do Stuff
- Twitter Tips
- unfrumpy
- WBCR: Berkshire Community Radio
- X Poetics
6 comments:
I'm with you Gina. I like it. We have four forsythias blooming riotously next to our barn driveway, and they make me grin, all the time. As soon as the lilacs pop, I'll have both of them cut and in vases and jars all over the house.
I love forsythia: my grandparents' driveway was lined with it. Heaven on earth, signifying springtime in Georgia. Who could hate forsythia?!?
People do. The three I know all grew up in New England...the loathing of common forsythia may be a misguided self-loathing townie notion. I say that with love to those nearest and dearest who hate the little yellow beasts. If I'm wrong, you need to de-lurk and speak up for yourselves!
I think it is garden snobbery. Many "serious" gardeners I know don't like all yellow flowers. As for daffs (which they always call narcissus), they choose the white or pale ones--never the yellow. I think yellow is happy, sunny, optimistic, so I,too, like forsythia
Yes, this forsythia hate is definitely a class issue, whether it's snobbery or anti-snobbery snobbery.
How can anyone hate it? It's such a cheerful harbinger of spring delights!
Post a Comment