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Forsythia
Name: It is named
in honour of William Forysth, director of the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1770, maker
of the first rock garden in the UK and one of the founders of the Royal Horticultural
Society.
Origin: The plant is native to China
and was discovered there by Robert Fortune, a great eighteenth century plant-hunter.
Colour: Yellow.
Availability:
Early spring.
Trivia:
Facts:
Forsythia is well known as a garden plant, but is also available as a cut flowering
foliage. It can be one of the first flowers into bloom. Many people have forsythia
plants in their garden but they take up a lot of space, and are pretty dull for
the fifty weeks of the year they are not in flower. Far better to buy a few fresh
branches each week of spring,
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