Ah, but I'm moving down south from the north! I'm a northeast babe,
and the traffic down there is horrifying, even to a Lawnguylander!
Just want a week of lilacs ... is that too much to ask?
-Nina

absolutely not. I have an older variety of lilac that grows quite well in
the south and blooms fairly well for me. I suggest you get yourself settled,
then open the phone book to Nurseries and hit a few and see what they offer
in the way of lilac's. After you see what they offer, go to a few Home
Despot's and Lowes and see if they might have the same varieties for much
cheaper. Lilac's DO grow in the deep south. Oh honey, you have an inkling
as to the horror's of the Atlanta drivers. It is historically known. I knew
it was bad 30 years ago when I was just a young little hippie going to the
Pink Floyd concert and almost missed the concert because the idiot manager
at the hotel we'd booked just across the street (convenience of being able
to WALK to the concert, and to nearby restaurants either before or after the
thing was over to eat was our goal, that and not drive in our "condition"
after the concert was over..........) from the Stadium, put us nine miles
away and we like to have never found it. Add that once we found the motel
(turned out someone had paid more money for OUR room.......ahh the days of
youth and unknown treacheries), it had been raining for three days straight,
the humidity was awesome and stifling (heck, I grew up in NASHVILLE and knew
humidity, but this blew my mind) and it was my bright idea for us all to
snag our shower curtains to sit on or throw over us in case it decided to
some up another summer storm.

Once the concert was over, and we found our way back thru the crowds of
stoned Pink Floyd fans from outa town, we discovered there wasn't anywhere
within 15 miles that was open to eat. These were the days of just a few
awful Waffle's..........not one at every interstate exit like now. All I
remember was the horrendous traffic and listening to my husband's best
friend screaming as we tried to maneuver thru the throng going 60 mph on the
right lane and shoulders (this was before they expanded the interstate to
what it is now, we're talking when the interstate was just built and already
inadequate for the people who were moving there in the mid 70's).

ANYWAY, check out some nurseries and the local Depot's and Lowes and I bet
you will have some good ol' fragrant lilac's in now time. g

Good luck, keep in touch and let us know what kind you wind up getting.
madgardener east of you off I-40 towards North Carolina in Eastern Tennessee