Apr 18 2009
Lilac Buds
Shrubs are ready to burst out in bloom. One of my favorite flowering shrubs is the lilac. The sweet fragrance is just delicious. The earliest bees are attracted, and soon the hummingbirds will be here as they migrate, some of them staying here to nest and some of them flying farther north.
My lilac was about 15 feet tall, but it was damaged by one of the ice storms last winter and I had to trim it back. Unfortunately, that means that most of the flower buds for this spring were lost, because lilacs set the buds during the summer for the following spring’s blooms. This is the reason that you prune your lilacs just after they have finished blooming in the spring.
