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Post by chris on Apr 25, 2009 10:38:50 GMT -5
Im sure the Lilacs will be cooperating this year and be right on schedule. I like this years poster too. www.lilacfestival.com/
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Post by Clipper on Apr 25, 2009 10:40:27 GMT -5
we have only two lilac bushes in our yard, but I am enjoying the smell every time I mow, or whenever I walk by them on the way to the mailbox. Ours are in bloom now, but yours will be coming soon with the weather you are having right now.
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Post by frankcor on Apr 25, 2009 11:37:01 GMT -5
My lilacs are just starting to get buds on them. That looks like a fantastic show, Chis. Dr. John and Joan Osborne are two of my favorites. What if God was one of us?
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 25, 2009 19:20:51 GMT -5
Frankie, mine to are budding. Love the smell of lilacs better then roses. Had three houses in my life time and all I planted a lilac tree right outside my bedroom window. Nothing better then waking up with a scent of lilacs filling the room.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 25, 2009 19:54:11 GMT -5
LIlacs here are very small, and not half the size of the ones that we had in our yard in N Utica. The blooms are only about 4 inches long. Our NY lilacs were huge by comparison. Is there large and small bloom varieties or is it a nutrient problem or something with these puny ones here, haha. I have fertilized the hell out of them for years, and I always cut each and every bloom off when it dies so they will come back again next year. They smell wonderful, but they are really small blossoms.
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Post by chris on May 4, 2009 15:31:47 GMT -5
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Post by bobbbiez on May 4, 2009 18:51:19 GMT -5
How pretty. Spring is in the air. ;D
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Post by dgriffin on May 4, 2009 20:29:21 GMT -5
That is indeed a nice poster, and I've saved a copy of the jpg, although I don't know what I'll do with it. (I never know what I'll do with them, come to think of it.)
I can't think of a more gratifying flower than the lilac. Their smell brings back playing in our backyard when I was a kid, walking a girl home after a date, and other pleasant times. Somewhere I have an old photo of my house in the late 1800's or early 1900's. Around a small porch at the side door were nothing but lilacs, almost forming a canopy as you walked out from the kitchen. They must have been uglier than sin in the winter, but in the spring they would have smelled heavenly.
And probably masked the smells coming from the barn, although to anyone used to life with animals on the land, barn smells are heavenly, as they have been for me. I tore down the old barn in 1991. I still miss it.
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Post by chris on May 4, 2009 20:43:22 GMT -5
Thanks...the shot is mine from some lilacs I cut to bring in and decorate my apt. I just created it into a polaroid image. Glad you like it.
I lived a few doors from Brandegee and remember picking some lilacs from the house next door to the school to bring to my 7th grade teacher ( all the girls were crazy for him cause he was hot and young...probably fresh out of college) Well he said he appreciated the gesture but we can't go picking the flowers out of the neighbors yard for him. I'm still trying to live the embarassment down . I think my friend Paul has since forgiven me......I hope ....it was his yard.
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Post by bobbbiez on May 7, 2009 11:04:55 GMT -5
My lilacs are in full bloom. Got the windows open with a little breeze going on and the whole house is filled with their scent. Just love It! Roses don't smell that good.
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Post by lucy on May 7, 2009 11:24:56 GMT -5
ahhhh.... When I lived in rome we had lilac bushes and boy do I miss them!!! I think next year I will plant them and blackberry bushes!!! yum yumm......
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Post by Clipper on May 8, 2009 7:43:59 GMT -5
When I was a kid, we used to take the little trumpets from lilac blossoms and such the nectar or sweetness from them. I must be part bee, haha. When my grandmother and grandfather lived in Whitesboro, they had a bush in the side yard that was about 7 or 8 feet across at the base and 10-12 feet high. I remember many times my grandfather gave people sprouts to start their own bushes.
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Post by chris on May 8, 2009 7:59:01 GMT -5
I love the smell of fresh lilacs but hate anything made with the scent of lilacs IE: lilac perfume yet the stuff is being sold for 75.00 a bottle at the festival. The perfume reminds me of cheap toilet water (cologne)
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Post by Clipper on May 8, 2009 9:43:43 GMT -5
They are probably just relabeling the refill bottles for the glade plug-ins and selling them for perfume, haha. ;D
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