Lilac Scent Of Lilac

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The month of August is coming to an end. If in your summer cottage spring does not meet summer with the multicolor and aroma of lilacs, then now is the time to start planting its bushes. After all, the end of August and the beginning of September is the most favorable period for a successful housewarming of lilacs. Its unpretentiousness, frost resistance will save you time and effort, and its lush flowering will provide an excellent mood

Pros of lilac

Of course, it would be very cool if olives grew on lilacs. After all, she comes from the Olive family. But the lilac did not get to the black-sided olives. Do not be upset, she already has enough positive qualities for which people welcome lilacs in their summer cottages, in city parks, alleys, gardens and on busy and quiet streets.

Having filled the summer cottage with aroma at the end of May, the lilac will remind you that summer is on its way, it's time to get lawn mowers, hoes, rakes and other summer garden equipment out of the pantries, check its performance, reliability and safety.

Fragrant flowers can become a summer "Santa Claus", fulfilling your wishes, if among the four-petal flowers you manage to find a flower with five petals and eat it on an empty stomach. Just do not inhale the scent of lilac for a long time when you are looking for five petals. In large doses, the aroma turns to poison.

It is advisable to remove the flowers that have completed their work so that the swelling clusters of seeds (if you do not need them) do not spoil the look of the shrub. And luscious green leaves will adorn the garden until late autumn, protecting the garden from road dust and the curiosity of neighbors.

Lilac is unpretentious, does not require your close and constant attention, easily tolerates frosts, lives up to a hundred years.

Varieties of lilac

* Common lilac is the most popular type with white and purple hues. The essential oils contained in the flowers exude a fragrant aroma. Blooms in the fourth year of its life. It quickly conquers territory, giving rise to a mass of young growth.

* Amurskaya - small flowers of white-cream shades densely stick around the brush, emitting a strong aroma. Not afraid of temperature changes, but prefers fertile soils. Blooms in late July.

* Hungarian - blooms half a month later than common lilac. The most desperate of the lilacs, tolerates waterlogging and drought, heat and cold. Sharp, pale purple petals frame long tubule-legs. The tiered clusters of inflorescences reach thirty centimeters.

* Monique Lemoine - large milky white dense double flowers with a weak aroma.

* Persian - loves warmth, blooms profusely and for a long time, but a little later than common lilac. Juicy lilac flowers are collected in dense fragrant brushes-inflorescences. The Persian lilac is a representative of the family of its hybrids. Like most hybrids, they take their best qualities from their parents. Many of them do not give root shoots, with which the gardener has to periodically fight, grow faster, bloom more abundantly.

* Primrose - at the beginning of flowering, its lush yellow brushes. Over time, the yellowness fades, turning the color to an almost white tint.

* Taras Bulba is a terry lilac that changes color during flowering from dark purple to light lilac. The flowers are delicate, large. Terry is achieved by the fact that another flower grows inside the four-petal flower.

Reproduction of lilac

Lilacs can be propagated by seeds, layering, cuttings and grafting.

Having collected the seeds in October and dried them, we bury them at the first frost to a depth of one and a half centimeters into a prepared bed in advance. In the spring, seedlings dive and grow.

If you dug in lilac branches in the spring, then by the fall you have a one-year-old seedling ready, which can be separated from the mother's and transplanted to the place chosen for it. Perhaps neighbors will willingly share such layering with you if you do not have lilacs on the site yet. Reproduction by layering is the simplest, less costly method than propagation by cuttings.

Lovers of exotic can use "grafting" to grow a bush, which will have brushes of different colors. The simplest method of grafting is when an oblique cut is made on the rootstock and cuttings (at an angle of 45 degrees). The stalk is applied to the stock very tightly and tied tightly.

Lilac is well grafted onto its relative in the Olive family - privet. Privet is even more unpretentious than lilac. It makes excellent green hedges if trimmed correctly and in a timely manner.