In article , "GoldLexus"
wrote:
I am really new to gardening so bare with me. I bought 2 lilacs from a
Garden show. They are the deep purple kind. Currently they are just
beginning to bud. I haven't planeted them yet which brings me to my
question. How tall do Lilacs get? Once I know how tall they will get than I
can figure out where to plant them.
Also can anyone recommend a good website on the planting and caring for
lilacs?
Thanks
It'd depend on the exact species & which cultivar, some of which are small
or even dwarf; but an ordinary middle-of-the-road basic Syringa vulgaris
potentially grows into a tree. The one immediately next door to me is
taller than the two story house it grows beside, with a single lower
trunk, suckers having been removed every year since the 1940s -- three
years ago the owner gave us one of the well-rooted suckers & it is now
growing beside our deck, a lanky nine feet tall & just a baby. If not
trained to be a tree, lilacs will develop multi-trunks & be shrubs, apt to
remain in the range of 15 feet tall, & ten feet wide. So either a small
tree or a very big shrub. But many named cultivars stay smaller. The deep
purple ones are often the wild form so get biggest.
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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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