lilacs

You know there's a lot in lilacs, more than their beauty.

The Second Chance 1910

The lilacs are a true harbinger of spring, with that scent and beautiful blue.

White Feather And Tree Peony Et Al « Fairegarden 2009

Beyond the lilacs was a small garden, or rather a series of small gardens.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Don't cut back spring bloomers such as lilacs, mock orange, quince, forsythia, flowering almond or others until after they finish blooming.

KUSA-TV - 2010

Flowering trees and shrubs, such as lilacs and star magnolias, that bloom in the spring should not be pruned until this year's flowering has finished.

Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News by WSU/Yakima County Master Gardeners 2010

Garden Tip: This is one of the times of year when we sprinkle lime on our lawns and gardens and around our lime loving plants such as lilacs, hellebores, daphnes and clematis.

Boston.com Most Popular 2009

Garden Tip: This is one of the times of year when we sprinkle lime on our lawns and gardens and around our lime loving plants such as lilacs, hellebores, daphnes and clematis.

Boston.com Most Popular 2009

This is just a reminder that it all started all over again when I finally suddenly inhaled that first scent of lilacs in the backdoor yard the other morning – after a legendary long winter that refused to surrender to spring, day after day, week after week, on and into the coldest June … the lilacs, scent-less, wondering would they ever bloom again?

leo dangel | four kinds of lilacs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Ahhh, I weep when the scent of lilacs arrive …. riding my bike to Lilacia Park every year to assault the many breeds of the smelly devils that anoint the beginning of springs blossoming seduction.

leo dangel | four kinds of lilacs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Leo, who captures lilacs – and everything rural … real … just right!

leo dangel | four kinds of lilacs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009