Walking around our park one evening after supper we noticed that in a minor act of vandalism some person had torn off and then dropped a flowering branch from one of the forsythia bushes. I took this home and put it in a vase with some daffodils.
It got us thinking. When we moved here and established our kitchen garden my husband removed a lilac, an unspecified tree and a forsythia bush of which our neighbour was rather fond. With hindsight we could have taken hardwood or root cuttings. Never mind. Once again we supported our local agricultural college and last Saturday took our place in the queue behind two loaded trolleys. A young student, under supervision, was learning to operate the till. We bought two at £4.50 each. Then on up the A6 for the charity shops, but that is another story...
On our return my husband removed another (smallish) dead leyland cypress from our perimeter and created two planting holes, filled with a mixture of leaf mulch and compost. In among the barbed wire went two forsythia bushes with healthy roots.
These bushes are small at the moment, but I know from previous experience that they can do well and grow quickly. Next year we hope to remove another dead cypress and put in two more. I see in my mind's eye a springtime screen of yellow forsythia waving in the dappled shade, while local residents enjoy the park.
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