Lilac Season

Two years ago Rick and I went on a lilac bender and bought something like eight lilac bushes.  They have finally settled in and are providing the most heavenly scent and color to the garden.

I think in general lilacs prefer a colder winter climate than we can give them but we have planted varieties that do well in our mild winters.

When we bought them I envisioned bringing in armloads into the house and having bouquets in every room.  However we can’t bring ourselves to cut any off the bushes.  They look too pretty!

We still have some work to do out here.  Like replanting a lot of our pots with annuals.  That bacopa in the urn has seen better days.  I need to spend a day pulling out all the old and taking inventory.  Then a trip to the nursery is in order.

The roses are all in full bloom despite me not doing a hard prune like I normally do every winter.

Here we have two Rosa Banks that have been trained to climb up the fence.  They are doing so much better since we took out a couple of overgrown shrubs that were planted in front of them.  Very reliable bloomers but they really only do the one fabulous flush of blooms with maybe a sporadic bloom here and there for the rest of the season.  But the hydrangeas will start blooming and we won’t notice as much.

That camellia that you see blooming away is the “In the Pink” I showed in a previous post.

The Cecille Brunner is another really reliable bloomer and looks gorgeous covering the shed.  There is another lilac too.  And a bucket I forgot to move out of the shot…

I’ll leave you with one last shot of the lilac.  I do with they would hurry up and perfect Smell-O-Vision so you could experience how gorgeous it smells around here.