<a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_9877.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1117" src="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_9877-300x200.jpeg" alt="IMG_9877" width="300" height="200" /></a>Forsythia bush is back from the dead.  It did not bloom last year due to dust from road construction that seemed of have killed this 30+ year old bush.  It spent all of last summer regrowing branches and all those newly regrown branches have bloomed and it looks like this bush may be back from the dead.    Forsythias are the first bush to bloom around here in zone 5 Chicago.

<a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_9818.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1118" src="http://bucktowngarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_9818-200x300.jpeg" alt="IMG_9818" width="200" height="300" /></a>Here's another shot and past articles from <a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/2011/04/28/forsythia-2011/">2011</a>, <a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/2012/03/22/forsythia/">2012</a>, and <a href="http://bucktowngarden.com/2013/05/06/forsythia-blooms/">2013</a>.  No pic was taken in 2014 because it didn't bloom.  In 2012 it bloomed on March 22 and in 2013 it didn't bloom until April 28.  Forsythia blooms are the official kick off for spring gardening projects.  So here we go...