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In the continuing saga My Air Smells Better Than Yours, Neener Neener, I bring you…. lilacs.
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I will forever be grateful to the previous owner of our house for planting lilac bushes 40 odd years ago.
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Lilacs are slow growers and take a long time to come into maturity.
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But when you have some that reach the height of your roof?
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Life is good.
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And it smells even better.
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My lilacs didn’t blossom this spring.
My bushes were in the all-together.
I didn’t do anything to them —
So it must have been the weather.
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I was surprised ours were so prolific this year. We’ve been near drought.
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We have lilacs as well, and they add great color to our garden. I need to trim them back so they bloom even more.
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We have a huge white, a medium dark purple and a minuscule lavender that has yet to bloom.
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I love lilacs, my mom has two giant trees in her front yard and they smell divine. I can’t wait to start planting roses, lilacs and honeysuckles at my new house.
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Roses are a lot of work, at least up here. And I didn’t think lilacs would grow down south, too hot and dry. Honeysuckle are lovely, just be careful to plant them somewhere you don’t mind them taking over. Fences are perfect.
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Lilacs shouldn’t grow down here. But my mom has a very green thumb, she can make anything grow. Those lilac trees were given to her on her tenth wedding anniversary, so they’ve survived for 43 years and the blooms just get bigger and sweeter. I wish I had her green thumb, she also has four fig trees that give so much fruit, I freeze tons of them and use them throughout the year.
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That’s wonderful. In all the years I lived down south I never saw a lilac.
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Well remember, I live in the far south west, not the Deep South. And where my parents live they have irrigation rights because of where they built their house. So there is an abundance of irrigation water for all my moms greenery in her yards. Which is probably why everything she plants thrives.
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Every time I look at a Queen Myrtle Crepe tree with all its beautiful blue-purple blossoms I get mad at Mother Nature!!! (But don’t tell her!) Why didn’t she give them an aroma?!?!?!? Why did she have to give it all to the lilacs?!?? ARGH!!
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It’s that southern heat. It sucks the goodness right out.
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I love the lilacs in our yard. Sadly, all the blooms are now spent. But the ‘hood sure did smell nice for about a month there.
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Ours are right outside the bedroom windows. Heaven.
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I like trimming our rose bush. Some plants have passed away as it is soooo hot out there. After the rainy season, we will again invest in a few new plants.
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We’re having a heat wave right now. In the 90’s for at least 3 days. My poor Yankee plants are baking.
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i love the beauty and smell of lilacs but am so allergic i can’t take more than a few seconds near them
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That’s a shame. I could happily sleep under our bushes.
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Your lilacs are gorgeous! Ours has already bloomed out but it did smell wonderful!
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They really do.
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My lavender ones are dying off. I don’t recall if my white ones bloomed last year. My other big purple one is dying too. I have no idea what is going on.
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That’s too bad. Ours have been here forever and we do absolutely nothing to them.
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Something went thru mine like a straight line wind or mini tornado. Just twisted and ripped them up. I need to cut them all to the ground and start over.
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