Forsythia on Friday

I promise this is my last flowery blip of the week!

It is just that I saw this Forsythia as I was driving down Kaimes Road on my way into work and thought that since the weather forcast was a bit poor for later today, that I had better get in there early!

Bit quiet in the office today however, it means being able to catch up on things which is good.

Here is a bit about Forsythia:

Forsythia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae (olive family). There are about 11 species, mostly native to eastern Asia, but one native to southeastern Europe. The common name is also Forsythia; the genus is named after William Forsyth (Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace, and co founder of the British Horticultural Society).

Forsythia suspensa, the first to be noticed by a Westerner, was seen in a Japanese garden by the botanist-surgeon Carl Peter Thunberg, who included it (as a lilac) in his Flora Japonica 1784. Thunberg's professional connections lay with the Dutch East India Company, and F. suspensa reached Holland first, by 1833. In England, when it was being offered by Veitch Nurseries in Exeter at mid-century, it was still considered a rarity.

It was featured in the movie Contagion as a purported cure to a disease that would kill 1 out of 12 people on the planet.

I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend?