Can You Identify This Flower That Grows In My Yard?

arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:26 PM
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Can You Identify This Flower That Grows In My Yard?

It's one of the most delicate and sweetest smelling flowers I've ever come across.

I'd love to know what variety it is so that I can find out how to root it, or transplant it... or to see if it's something that our local nursery can get.

Have you ever seen it before? What's it called?

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CatWoman

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:27 PM
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1. looks like Hyacinth

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:28 PM
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3. Similar blooms, but this grows on what appears to be a vine...

... or a vine-like branch.

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:41 PM
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19. leaves are different

his leaves are those of a lilac bush.

We have miniature lilacs which have really tiny blooms, fragrant, but don't least as long

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AlCzervik

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:28 PM
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2. looks like a lilac or a really skinny hydrangea

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CatWoman

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:30 PM
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4. I'll bet it is lilac

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:32 PM
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8. Yep... they hang down just like that...

that's what it is! I just love them!

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Sat Apr-23-05 08:32 PM
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44. I'm pretty sure this pic is a Wisteria.

We had a couple lilacs and wisteria where we used to live. Oooooooohh! Loverly! Wisteria is really cool when its old and growing over a roof (we moved before that wisteria I planted got old though). Different lilacs have different flowering times so you can put in some early, middle and late bloomers to stretch out the joy. And there's one I've heard of that blooms in Spring and again in late Summer.

I miss that garden we made, it was gorgeous. Perfect too cuz it was on a very small lot, so it wasn't hard to create a really overgrown garden with all different flowers and shrubs. Ahhh !

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:31 PM
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6. Mystery solved... I googled for another photo of a lilac...

Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM by arwalden

and found this one. It's a perfect match! THANK YOU!

?click

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AlCzervik

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM
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12. Enjoy, i can't look at it anymore it's making me sneeze.

tis lovely though.

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radwriter0555

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:46 PM
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33. Yes, Lilac, peak of the season. Lucky you!

They're real jewels in the flower world.

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ScooterTramp

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:30 PM
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5. I want to say amyrillis. I'll see if I can find them.

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CatWoman

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:32 PM
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9. Amaryllis doesn't grow on a vine

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ScooterTramp

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:45 PM
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25. Yes, the name just popped into my head!

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM
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10. Amaryllis is a big thick stalked flower. A bulb flower.

I know this because, my daughter got the word at the national spelling bee and was given one as a gift when she returned home. :hi:

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:42 PM
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20. My indoor Amaryllis had six (SIX!) blooms on it this year...

... now it's just sitting there with four long leaves... doing nothing. The leaves are so big and tall that I'm afraid it will tip the 6" pot over. I guess it's storing up sunlight energy in hopes of blooming again next year.

My mother gives me an Amaryllis bulb every Xmas, and I have NO trouble in getting it to bloom like mad, but I can never get it to live through the next winter and into spring. It just rots.

What's the secret? Anyone?

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ScooterTramp

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:46 PM
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26. Yes, and I'm not even a blonde!

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:32 PM
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7. Looks like Lilac to me...

The most wonderful smelling bloom in all the world. :hi:

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:35 PM
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15. I Know... It's Delicious...

I wish they lasted longer though. I wish I could bring them inside and have them live for more than a day or two. I wish they would bloom all year long.

But since I can't make them last longer... I'll have to settle for having MORE, MORE, MORE of them... all over my yard and back fence. They are beautiful!

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:38 PM
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17. Oh Allen, you and me both. I've got three bushes in the front yard and

four in the back. It's heavenly. I take cuttings and put them in bowls throughout the house. The rest of the year, I buy the Lilac scented candles from Yankee Candle...the smell almost like the real thing. :hi:

http://www.yankeecandle.com/cgi-bin/ycbvp/product_detail.jsp?oid=296942

They make your whole home smell like lilacs.

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snacker

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM
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11. If it's blooming on a bush, it's a lilac.

Those look like the leaves of a lilac bush to me.
A hyacinth would be a flower that blooms from a bulb planted in the
ground.

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Quakerfriend

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM
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Definitely lilac!

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LiberalEsto

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:33 PM
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13. That is a lilac - aren't they beautiful?

Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 05:34 PM by LiberalEsto

We have one lilac bush right under my daughter's bedroom window. The fragrance is heavenly.

Lilac flowers have 4 petals and grow on woody branches. Lilac shrubs can grow up to 15 to 20 feet high.

Hyacinths grow from bulbs in the ground on fleshy green stems no more than a foot high. The individual flowers have 6 petals.

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:18 PM
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31. Yep... this one is about 10 feet tall...

I need to do something with it. It's a bit overgrown looking and somewhat lopsided and unsightly (except when it's blooming).

I wonder if I can do anything with it, or cut it back to a managable more evenly proportioned size WITHOUT harming it or causing it not to bloom again next year.

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LiberalEsto

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:57 PM
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36. Prune right after the blooms fade

and take out about 1/3 of the oldest trunks. Leave the younger trunks alone. Also, clip off all the dead blooms so they don't go to seed.

Next year, prune out another 1/3 of the oldest branches, after it's finished flowering. The third year, do the final 1/3.

Here's a link on lilac pruning that explains this and other approaches:

http://www.helpfulgardener.com/lilacs/03/pruning.html

I pruned out 1/3 of the oldest branches last year, and the rest of it is blooming like mad this year.

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:40 PM
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42. Excellent Link...

... very useful information. Thank you VERY much for taking the time to find that for me! :hi:

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The empressof all

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:34 PM
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14. Clearly a lilac

I just picked a huge basket of them this morning and have vases of them strewn throughout the house. I'm luxuriating in their aroma. They don't last more than a day as a cut flower but OMG what a day!

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:38 PM
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18. Yes.. I discovered that...

<< They don't last more than a day as a cut flower but OMG what a day! >>

It's almost like they refuse to drink... so I feel guilty for cutting them. At least with roses they last almost as long in water as the do on the bush... so I don't feel guilty.

You're right though... it is wonderful to have them inside while they DO last.

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snacker

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:43 PM
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21. Here's the deal with cut lilacs...

or anything flower with a woody stem. Either cut a slice right up the stem or pound it with a hammer...this allows more water to be absorbed up the stem.

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arwalden

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:45 PM
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24. Interesting. It makes sense...

... I'll give it a try.

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Malva Zebrina

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:36 PM
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16. I think it is a Lilac

I have two really really old lilac trees on my property. Big tortuous branches. One is a white lilac, which does not have a strong scent and the other is a purple lilac which is heavenly in it's scent. Chickadees feed off of it during the winter. I suspect they are pecking at the seeds. A neighbor of mine, who is from Wales, told me that in that country, bringing lilacs into the house as cut flowers was bad luck. It looks like a Lilac to me

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all.of.me

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:43 PM
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22. it's a lilac. looks like a 'french lilac' because it's pale purple.

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ClintonTyree

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:45 PM
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23. Lilac, I live in the Lilac Capital of the world...

Rochester, NY. We have a week long, giant Lilac Festival every year. It's coming up in the next week or so. There are hundreds of varieties and we have them all in one place, Highland Park in Rochester. Lilac lovers should check it out some time.

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radwriter0555

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:49 PM
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34. in our house in upstate NY, we had lilacs visible from every window in

the house, and some of the bushes were 2 stories tall. People would line the road out in front to pick our lilacs, for free of course. We had so many that you couldn't even tell when they'd been cut by scores of people. I believe we literally had every color ever cultivated from palest of white whites to deep maroon purples.

The house is almost 200 years old now... it was lovely.

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Blue Gardener

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Sat Apr-23-05 05:55 PM
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27. If you have the space

Plant a Dwarf Korean Lilac. It stays fairly small compared to most lilacs, and can be kept pruned so it fits in a small yard. If possible plant it beneath a window you can open on a beautiful spring day. The scent is heavenly.

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n2mark

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:10 PM
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28. I miss the smell of Lilacs in the spring,

we don't have lilacs in the west. If we do please correct me.

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NV Whino

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:55 PM
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35. We have them in California

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d_b

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:14 PM
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29. Lilac?

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greatauntoftriplets

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:18 PM
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30. Lilac.....

No question.

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cmd

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Sat Apr-23-05 06:43 PM
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32. Lilac.

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auntAgonist

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:16 PM
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37. Looks like lilac, but "I" think it's Wisteria

Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 07:18 PM by auntAgonist

grows vine like? Delicate smell?

just my 2cents.

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miss_kitty

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Sat Apr-23-05 09:04 PM
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48. nope

Syringa vulgaris, aka common lilac
OP:

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marigold20

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:20 PM
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38. Lilac theft

We had to cut down our lilac to build the new garage so I've been casing various lilac bushes on or near public areas. I sneak over at twilight and cut a few for my table. Our new bush had better grow fast! I think the old-fashioned purple ones smell the best.

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miss_kitty

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Sat Apr-23-05 09:08 PM
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49. it will. Lilacs bloom on previous years' wood, so prune after flowering

the more youthful the wood, the more vigorous the blooms. If you grow it as a bush (the way nature intended) as opposed to a tree, it will bloom more too.

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Ann Arbor Dem

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:27 PM
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39. Definitely lilac...

We have white, light purple and deep purple lilac bushes in our yard. The scent is to die for when they are in bloom.

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Maddy McCall

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:34 PM
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40. Here's a photo of lilac from google images

I think it's lilac, too.

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freethought

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Sat Apr-23-05 07:39 PM
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41. Keep that Lilac!

When I was growing up there were Lilac bushes all over the yard. When they are in bloom the scent was wafted around everywhere. Almost intoxicating!

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Sat Apr-23-05 08:11 PM
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43. The best flower in the world-lilac!

Can't wait til my back yard 50' hedge blooms in a couple of weeks. i open all the windows-mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Get more bushes, you can never have too many!!
:woohoo:

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baldguy

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Sat Apr-23-05 08:42 PM
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45. Lilac

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postulater

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Sat Apr-23-05 08:47 PM
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46. Lilac, no doubt.

Just drive down any single lane country road in the Midwest, look for an abandoned farmhouse and you'll see a huge clump of lilacs nearby where the house rotted away.

Go dig one up. Noone will mind, they're an alien weed. Pretty though, and they do smell good for a bit in the spring.

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miss_kitty

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Sat Apr-23-05 09:00 PM
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47. Syringa vulgaris

the common Lilac.

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