Your Forsythia from a distance might even be a Kerria. Some wonderful
friendships between gardeners have begun by a passerby asking about a plant.

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Regards
Mike Gilmore
WinsfordWalledGarden, SW England,
USDA Zone9a
"B & J" bjskeff@removecox-internetcom wrote in message
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"Jack Schmidling" wrote in message
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I keep seeing what looks like forsythia from a distance, in bloom now in
N.
Illinois.

I can't get close enough without driving into peoples yards to check it
out.

What could they be and forsythia blooms in Spring?

js

I well could be forsythia blooming. I not only have forsythia blooming now
but also Carolina jasmine in bloom. Both normally bloom in March (z 6),
but
we had a chilling period earlier followed by an extended warming trend
(60 -
70). That was enough to trigger blooming.

John