Since this was our first Spring in the house, this was the first time we got to experience the lilacs blooming in our backyard! And it was... disappointing. For the amount of space taken over by these huge lilac bushes, there were very few actually flowers. And almost all of those were up 9 feet!! There was one bunch that I could actually reach last week, so I had one little vase of them in the house for a few days. And that's all. :-(
At some point, the lilacs were 6 or 8 distinct bushes. Now, they are an overgrown sort of wall. Grown in between to mesh with each other, grown deep, and very, very tall.
K was talking about hacking them down so that they weren't taking over the yard so much, and that sounded horrible to me! But then I did some reading to see what we'll need to do to get them to flower more, and that's pretty much what we need to do. We'd need to basically cut them in half, height-wise. And trim a lot of the extra shoots and the old, dead growth.
It sounds like we probably won't have any flowers the next year, after we do this. But that the year after, they should do nuts! And I'll actually be able to reach the flowers without a very tall ladder. Sounds like a sacrifice I'd be willing to make.
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