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| I love this time of year! I owe the existance of these plants to our office manager, who loves lilacss. We at work bought these bushes for her and planted them outside the front window. The scent is incredible in the late afternoon, after they've been baking in the sun!
I've been threatening to shovel prune this Beauty of Moscow lilac for several years, as it's never really done much. But our office manager has always stayed my hand -- and this year I'm awfully glad!
Old reliable; our 9-10 year-old "Sensation" lilac:
And our reblooming Josee. The follow-up bloom has varied wildly from year to year, but it's never had so spectacular a spring bloom:
Sigh. I love lilacs... |
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- Posted by princess_mimi z5 6 OH (My Page) on Wed, Apr 29, 09 at 9:06
| Me too! ~~Mimi |
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| Great pics, Alison. I've been wondering what Josee would look like--and if it will really re-bloom. So Beauty of Moscow is not the pale pink shown in catalogues? It looks more like a pinkish-lavender. I've got a new deep purple (like Welch's grape juice) blooming heavily this year. It is lovely but doesn't have the scent of the old bushes that came with the house. |
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| I've wondered about that too; I think that lilac may have been mislabled. Last summer I think we got 3-4 blooms on the Josee all summer, but most years it's been better than that. Nothing like the spring bloom, but worthwhile. The lilac that haunts me grew outside the New Orleans Zoo. Deep purple, like yours, with a super sweet scent like bubble gum. Yum! Nobody seems to know what it was. |
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| Love your pics Allison. I collect lilacs, and most of the new ones just had small blooms that faded before I got pics. Late evening pic. (pics are clickable) Here it almost seems to glow. Sue |
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| we have a very old white lilac thats spread out a good bit. limbs have fallen and rerooted a bit over the years. all that white makes it look a little fun when we get the little tuff of purple to the one side and theres a pink one that just arches out from under the white |
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