This week Jane brings you Flying Machine™, a very special forsythia that comes to us from Dr. Kyung Ku Shim of South Korea. Its enormous flowers of deep, true golden-yellow fall from the branches intact, resulting in a doubly dramatic display: the first when it blooms, the second when its fallen blossoms carpet the ground, landing face up every time!
This is a brand new variety that won't come to retail until 2020, but if you're a garden writer with space for it and would like to give it a trial, let me know in the comments below!
- Natalie
Come fly with me!
We're right in the middle of the holiday season. There are parties and presents and prodigious amounts of food. So I'm sure that the first thing on your mind is Forsythia.
Maybe not. But we're almost to an important date for any of you planning to visit (or be visited by) loved ones this December: the first flight.
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| Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk |
To celebrate the first flight I bring you Flying Machine™ Forsythia. It's a whimsical name for a fun version of the garden staple.
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| Flying Machine™ Forsythia |
Very large (1"+) flowers are quite showy on the plant and then provide additional entertainment as they helicopter to the ground in one piece to create a stunning yellow carpet at the base of the plant.
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| Flying Machine™ Forsythia |
The Wright brothers didn't invent the helicopter (that came sometime later), but their invention surely inspired its development. After all, they proved that we could fly.
Now you know two pieces of trivia to share with that know-it-all uncle at the next family holiday gathering!
Plant of the Week is written by Jane Beggs-Joles.
