Lilacs and Mountain Ash

[Nasoosie]

Latest pics of lilacs and Mountain Ash blossoms..in the rain!










With a little bit of sun, I should have lilacs SOON! I am so glad they did not freeze!

[avalen]

I love lilacs, miss them from my Colorado days, snow never hurt them in Colorado and
they grew like weeds. Your lilacs are so dark, and just beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[Sparkle]

I can almost smell them!

[bluepinecones]

They are beautiful and smell so great.
Read article the other day saying light to moderate freeze would not typically harm most spring flowering shrubs if flowers were still in bud when low temps hit. Looks as if that proved true for your little gems.

[asirimarco]

Love the pictures. Lilacs are one of my favorite flowers 0 I remember them from when I was a little girl living in so west New York state. Never saw them in CA or NV. Our neighbor across the street has a bush but it bloomed real early and didn't last very long at all. We have 2 new bushes but they didn't bloom at all. Weird year even the RedBuds didn't bloom as full and last as long.

[AlmostThere]

Oh, lilacs bring back such wonderful memories. My oldest sister was the dessert/bread baker and flower planter on the farm where we were born and raised. She had many lilac and rose bushes scattered around the farmyard. One lilac bush was called Prussian blue and was a very dark purple. She got the shoot from our grandmother and I tried starting new shoots from it when I got a yard of my own but I never could get a bush started. I love the smell of real lilacs but totally abhor the smell of lilac scented perfumes and air freshners.

[Nasoosie]

I have to agree with you about the fake lilac scents...ACK!!! Just not the same thing!

If this milder weather keeps up, and the sun comes out at all, I will be able to take some pics of the blossoms totally opened up. It is such a shame that they don't last longer, but perhaps that's what makes them so wonderful while they are here.

I 'acquired' my lilac bushes from an old abandoned farmhouse just after we moved in here....dug little shoot bushes of them up during the height of black-fly season, headnet and all over my head. When I got them home, the flies were so bad I could just barely see the ground to dig shallow holes to put them in! But in they went, and LO! They took off like weeds, and have been blooming (nearly every year) ever since. I am trying to keep them cut back and low enough so they won't block my kitchen window view of the yard. Cutting them back just seems to enhance their blooms.

The mountain ash trees, which get bright orange berries in the fall where those little white buds are now, I scooped out of the ground under some established trees in a friend's yard.....berries that had fallen and taken root......when they were just like blades of grass. I should have weeded them out and kept just one main tree, but I didn't have the heart to do that...so I have a mini 'grove' of them outside the kitchen window behind the lilacs. There are more along the driveway on the side of the house. The flowers on those really STINK when they open up, but are short-lived, and then berries begin developing. The orange of those berries is way more than compensation for the odor of those poor blossoms! The rain needs to stop to allow the bees to do their thing with all the blossoms around here, including the blueberries. Am hoping for a rain-free weekend.