Budding Lilac

[Mousetoescamper]

[Sanity Claws]

1. My favorite fragrance

[2naSalit]

2. Already?

[Mousetoescamper]

3. These are the buds, not the blossoms. They've been budding since last week.

[2naSalit]

4. Whew...

It is knid of early. Ours bloom around June.

[Mousetoescamper]

8. It's an early bloomer. This was taken on May 9 of last year.

[2naSalit]

9. Well that makes sense.

Those are lovely, I think that kind smells the best. And they look more delicate.

[Mousetoescamper]

10. They have very little fragrance and some of the blossoms have none at all.

My first spring here, in 2021, I thought there was something wrong with it. Turns out that some lilacs have little to no fragrance. I have to crush the blossoms to smell them. I love the smell of lilac and was looking forward to walking out my back door and getting a whiff on the breeze. Disappointing, but it is a beautiful bush.

[2naSalit]

14. Oh too bad.

The kind that looks like that around here have a delicate perfume scent and it's subtle but alluring.

[Peregrine Took]

5. 'had a bush in our back yard growing up. I used to take a bunch for our May altar at school. n/t

[brer cat]

6. Nice detail, Mousetoes.

[Mousetoescamper]

11. Thanks, brer cat!

[slightlv]

7. We had a lilac bush in our backyard when I was a kid.

It was my favorite place to be. It was so large, and I could walk inside it and be enveloped by the aroma. I always wanted to plant one here where I live, but I was definitely one born with a brown thumb. I bring healthy looking plants home, google how to take care of them, and no matter what I do (or don't do), they seem to talk among themselves and say, "okay... time to die!" (LOL)

[calimary]

12. It STARTS!

Here it comes! I have crocuses and daffodils and hyacinths happening now! WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!! The lilacs are just getting started, and the blue balloon flowers won't wake up til later in the year.

[Mousetoescamper]

15. My crocuses have finally budded and today a few of them were blooming. I planted 30 corms, some...

of which were stolen by squirrels. They're planted atop my cat Penelope's grave in a shady part of the garden, which is why they were so slow to emerge. My daffodils are budding. The irises and day lilys are growing well, but it's too early for them to bud. The climbing clematis is climbing the trellis. Spring is my favorite season.

[calimary]

18. And everything seems to have spread since last spring, too.

I’ve got lots of little shoots somehow poking their heads up through the dirt now! And I KNOW I didn’t plant that many!

[Mousetoescamper]

19. Volunteers!

[niyad]

13. Thank you. They are one of my favourites. If I am lucky, there will be at least

one branch in the neighborhood in bloom on my birthday.

[Mousetoescamper]

16. You're welcome, niyad.

Here's an early Happy Birthday! to you.

[niyad]

17. Thank you! For now, I am using lilac-scented candles.