Forcing Forsythia blooms

     Here is a quick and easy way to fool mother nature and to add some early spring color to your home. Right about now the forsythia buds are coming out in my hometown in Westchester County, New York. Take a few stems, cutting about two to four feet in length from the top of some longer branches. This will ensure that you don't make much of an impact to the overall structure of the shrub. Take a nice vase, glass container or a water-tight decorative pot filled with water and put the newly cut stems in with cut part down in water and before you know it you will have a nice floral arrangement of yellow flowers in full bloom.