I don't remember exactly from when I have been interested in forsythia. When I first built the house, I planted it in the garden. It blooms in early spring covering the whole round-trimmed tree with brilliant yellow flowers. It makes me enjoy for a while, and then gives the way to the light green young leaves that bring a full spring, the best season of the year, to my garden. I love the growing foliage of the tree as well, it gives me a refreshing sense.

I still remember the bush of forsythia blooming around the pond of a community, located in the suburbs of Chicago, where we had once lived two decades ago. The pedals of the flower had been, I remember, much larger than that of here in my garden. I wonder everything is larger in the US, a large country. Whenever I see the yellow flower blooming in my garden, I recall the beautiful waving of the flower in Chicago.

The illustrated flower guide in my garden