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Lilacs
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 |
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Lilacs
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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. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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