I believe the previous owner could have been correct. I planted three lilacs only three days ago. They were purple when I planted them. By this afternoon I noticed that the blooms had all turned white. I looked it up here because I thought it must be something to do with the soil.
To nanjan : I also bought a home that had a huge PURPLE lilac bush. I transplanted enough shoots to cover a 2 acre periphery around my yard.. ALL produced WHITE flowers! I still enjoy the purple bush, but if I ever want more, I will have to purchase new ones. .
I signed up just to put in my five cents here. Lilacs can most definitely change colour--and then change back again! I have a big old lilac bush behind the house where I've lived for the last 14 years. For the first few years, it was all a variegated purple (deep purple flowers with pretty pale edges), and then a few years ago, I noticed the blooms on one branch had come in pale--not quite as white as the white lilac I have at the other end of the yard, but such a pale pink as to be almost white. The weirdest thing is that it happens every year...to a different branch! A branch that went pale one year will bloom in dark variegated purple the next. I've kept a photographic record of it, because the first two years it happened I thought I was losing my mind. I haven't a clue what causes it, though a friend of mine thought it probably had to do with the variegated lilac being a hybrid and reverting to type. But that it does so in rotation is baffling!
so pleased i read this I had a privet grow in with my lilac and couldn't understand it. I cut off long branch but allnow little ones coming from base of my dwarf lilac and I think it's privet again. Mystery solved!
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I was always told by my Mother it is unlucky to have lilac indoors,anyone else heard of this?
nodlisab, I was told that about may (hawthorn) and elder. I don't remember lilac being mentioned
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nodlisab,I was always told by my mom and gran that lilac was unlucky in the house.They were from South Wales-maybe it's a welsh saying?
I believe the previous owner could have been correct. I planted three lilacs only three days ago. They were purple when I planted them. By this afternoon I noticed that the blooms had all turned white. I looked it up here because I thought it must be something to do with the soil.
To nanjan : I also bought a home that had a huge PURPLE lilac bush. I transplanted enough shoots to cover a 2 acre periphery around my yard.. ALL produced WHITE flowers! I still enjoy the purple bush, but if I ever want more, I will have to purchase new ones. .
I signed up just to put in my five cents here. Lilacs can most definitely change colour--and then change back again! I have a big old lilac bush behind the house where I've lived for the last 14 years. For the first few years, it was all a variegated purple (deep purple flowers with pretty pale edges), and then a few years ago, I noticed the blooms on one branch had come in pale--not quite as white as the white lilac I have at the other end of the yard, but such a pale pink as to be almost white. The weirdest thing is that it happens every year...to a different branch! A branch that went pale one year will bloom in dark variegated purple the next. I've kept a photographic record of it, because the first two years it happened I thought I was losing my mind. I haven't a clue what causes it, though a friend of mine thought it probably had to do with the variegated lilac being a hybrid and reverting to type. But that it does so in rotation is baffling!
Hello All!
Like Jenifer I had to join to share this.
We have several lilac trees on our property and use all your hey are all the same colour.
This spring one of our trees have two shades of purple. The like pink and as mother calls it Burgandy.
We have lived in this spot since 78 and this is the first time for Burgandy. The marvels of nature.
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so pleased i read this I had a privet grow in with my lilac and couldn't understand it. I cut off long branch but allnow little ones coming from base of my dwarf lilac and I think it's privet again. Mystery solved!