Forcing Forsythias

Hello Friends!

I have tried in years past to force forsythias to no avail.

THIS year, it worked!

My bush outside does not show any signs of opening anytime soon.

I am sooo ready for spring so I decided to try it again and they are at their peak right now.

I love their yellow yumminess, so spring to me.

I cut the stems and brought them inside.

I put them in warm water and cut the ends off while they were fully submerged.

I changed the warm water several times during the day and recut the ends under the water each time.

The next day, I changed the warm water again and cut the ends and added floral preserve.

It took about 1 1/2 weeks and then I had this!

It is snowing out again! We keep having dustings here and there, if it's going to snow I wish we would get dumped on! Otherwise, come on spring!!

Have a great weekend!

~Shanon


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PS!!

Update for the google follower links!

Sweet Dore from Burlap Luxe shared this with me.

It was in questioning the "google" followers link being taken away as of March 1st.
They seem to be there still so I was wondering about it. She said this back:

Hi sweet friend,
This is not true, I have been in direct contact with google and anyone who is linked with blogspot google blogger will not lose there GFC google friends connect.
Googles own site is Google.blogspot.com and as they told me in our conversation why would they do away with there own GFC and lose there own following :)

I wish this big rumor would clear up, spread the word.

Official Google Blog: January 2011

Go to link above it will explain that Google is not getting rid of Blogger Friends Connect, just other sites such as typepad and so on. Google said anyone who linked google with Blogger did it right, googles own site is a Blogspot blog site Google Friends Connect site. Linky will not support the friends connect as google does.