Forsythia Week

This looks to be another early Forsythia year: these shrubs are now well into a great display of yellow blossom in 2010/14. This is our first season with an Abeliophyllum distichum in the garden: it is sometimes called "snow forsythia". It has a very impressive, hard-white blossom. It is giving its name to this week. Some gardens and traffic islands are already showing impressive displays of daffodils, but ours are all holding back. And Pieris, which has flowered in week 14 in the past? This year it seems to be calling a bye.