I have one which I have had for 41 years and transfered it when we moved and also grew some as a hedge.The lilac has now been in one spot for 36 years but alas it has a virus of sorts and is dying.it grew as a small tree as we pruned the top so as it woundt get too big.
Ha ha Dovefromabove, no mystery really. There's no-one buried underneath anyway!!
The tree belongs to my Mums neighbour and he reckons it was planted in 1997. The first photo was taken by brother the other day and the second was taken a few days earlier but is a photo of a photo. I was curious because I'm no Alan Titchmarsh but to me it looks too spindly to be 16 years old.
As I said, it looks to me like a neglected mistreated spindly speciman and it could be almost any age. It certainly looks to me as if it's been overcrowded and deprived of light and nourishment in the past. The twsts in the stem indicate either some rough treatment or that it really has had to struggle to reach the sunlight.
I wouldn't place too much reliance on people's memories of when things happened either - there are some people on this messageboard who think that Nena's 99 Red Balloons was released in the 1970s
I'm sure this spindly little shrub would be flattered if it knew how important it is in your family's life
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I'd just like to establish how long it's been there.
It looks very sad.
Strange - the first photo appears to have been taken from over the other side of the new fence panel shown in the second photo.
The second photo appears to have been taken at a distance and zoomed in on - possibly taken some time earlier than the first.
I sense a mystery
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
of course the definitive way to decide how old it is, cut it through (prune) at about 2ft. Count the growth rings.
I have one which I have had for 41 years and transfered it when we moved and also grew some as a hedge.The lilac has now been in one spot for 36 years but alas it has a virus of sorts and is dying.it grew as a small tree as we pruned the top so as it woundt get too big.
Ha ha Dovefromabove, no mystery really. There's no-one buried underneath anyway!!
The tree belongs to my Mums neighbour and he reckons it was planted in 1997. The first photo was taken by brother the other day and the second was taken a few days earlier but is a photo of a photo. I was curious because I'm no Alan Titchmarsh but to me it looks too spindly to be 16 years old.
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As I said, it looks to me like a neglected mistreated spindly speciman and it could be almost any age. It certainly looks to me as if it's been overcrowded and deprived of light and nourishment in the past. The twsts in the stem indicate either some rough treatment or that it really has had to struggle to reach the sunlight.
I wouldn't place too much reliance on people's memories of when things happened either - there are some people on this messageboard who think that Nena's 99 Red Balloons was released in the 1970s
I'm sure this spindly little shrub would be flattered if it knew how important it is in your family's life
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.