Date(s): 2009. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 10 of 10 Total. 2181 Visits.
1 BNR FB 010 Forsythia time The semaphoric effect of Forsythia is in part due to good timing. Everything sticks out in landscape which is still barren with winter.
Mini history: Forsythia is an introduced shrub. It was apparently the first things a Mr. Forsyth spotted after stepping off the slow boat. Dr.Watson part: Not a scriptural plant. The resurrection symbolic, if any, is wasted. For the more conventional myth maker: safest way to step into a lion den without getting mauled. Probably somewhat forced. The color is actually a far cry from tawny. Telephone both yellow would be closer fit (prior to the switch to kawaii pink). Corollary: no footprint in Western herbal lore. Different story in the traditional Chinese medicine. (Nothing clear-cut as far as I can tell, just the usual plethora of ill defined attributes.)
Propagation nearly exclusively by stem cuttings. Schoolroom wisdom: Should not make for a terrible large gene pool.
Different take. One of the three representatives of the oliv...
2 BNR FB 011 mixed bloom more panorama panning
3 BNR FB 014 mixed bloom Some watercolor palette boxes include a special tube of white paste so you can do cherry and peach tree blooms. Mix sparingly with other color hues. (The other colors did come in ready made cups. Just dip in a wet brush. Classroom model.)
4 BNR FB 016 Spirae prunus
5 BNR FB 018 Prunus s Possibly Japanese flowering cherry. Hard to tell.
6 BNR FB 020 Forsythia
7 BNR FB 021 Forsythia wasteland with sprig of forsythia
8 BNR FB 023 Forsythia against dark conifers
9 BNR FB 050 Paulownia imperialis Paulownia imperialis (aka P. tomentosa). Another introduced plant from the Far East. Distantly related with Forsythia. Same order, Scrophulariales. Catalpe, thou shalt know them by their leaf size, belongs also into that super group. More familiar representative: snapdragon. Named in honor of a Romanov princess. No slow boat in this one but a well established overland trail to Manchuria may have helped.
10 BNR FB 051 Paulownia imperialis the flower raceme
