My 'Miss Kim' had about a dozen blooms, very few. She is over a decade old and usually has at least a hundred.

Thanks BoS - better luck to us both next year!

Mine has done just fine this year. In a pot for two years with homemade potting soil. It will be going in the ground soon.
Mike
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My Miss Kim didn't bloom either. A couple of my summer ice daphnes aren't producing like they have in previous years .. they look lush and green though, just like Miss Kim.

Oh well, next year.

My 'Miss Kim' normally looks like the photo above but was much sparser this year. Daphne 'Summer Ice' is also lush but not blooming though it had blooms earlier.

I have 4 normal lilacs and none of them gave me even one bloom. 3 blooms from "Miss Kim" this year.

All three of my Miss Kims looked like the photo. The leaves look varigated, so my project today is to fert. I don't see any bugs so it must be something lacking in soil probably from winter leaching...my area is hilly with much water when the rains are heavy. I don't prune but dead head soon after bloom.
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D...

Huh. I don't have any lilacs myself, but it seems to me that the neighborhood lilacs all did pretty well this year. All standard lilacs, not Miss Kim. Nothing was covered with bloom but most seemed to have a good show. I'm talking about well established shrubs in the ground.

I saw numbers of lilac bushes being quite profuse also. Just not all of them. Variation in production between specimens occurs every year, same as with rhododendrons etc.

For whatever reasons various different kinds of trees and shrubs are being noticed with mottled or stippled new growth this year, asked about on the internet.

bboy...will fert help rid the stippled leaves? Could it be too much acid in soil? I fight huck and salal-a good indicator of high acidic soil. I will put lime on but should I hit it with iron as well?
My Hydraneas look the same, tho some died back to ground this year.
Thanks for input.
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D..

My old house came with old fashioned lilacs that were a mass of flowers this year.

I'm thrilled that I got 3 clusters of blooms this year. That's the first time since being brought home from the nursery that the lilac (Vulgaris) produced ANY blooms. A former housemate decided to plant it in a too shady corner of the yard, you see. Well the overhanging cedars were taken out 2 winters ago and I've been waiting and wondering if it was going to bloom again ever since!