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Environment & Energy

no_hypocrisy

(54,908 posts) Sun Jan 8, 2012, 03:45 PM Jan 2012

I'm pretty sure I'm right about this: I saw a forsythia bush in the very very first stages of bloom. [View all]

The tips of the bushes were plump and light light green as contrasted against the brown branches. Just like in late March.

I'm in the top northern part of New Jersey.

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I'm pretty sure I'm right about this: I saw a forsythia bush in the very very first stages of bloom. [View all] no_hypocrisy Jan 2012 OP

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