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can this lilac be saved?
this is my 4th spring in this house, and the lilac has produced one sad little bloom each year.
my neighborhood is filled with gorgeous lilacs, so i know they can do well here. i give it a little lime each spring and fall.
anyway, it seems very old and established. the 'trunk'? is pretty substantial, from that there are 3 tall, thick branches.
from what i've read, this lilac probably should have been pruned back well before the branches got so thick ... live and learn. anyway, i'm willing to take drastic measures. should i prune this thing all the way down? wwyd?
Re: can this lilac be saved?
Our neighbor's was poking under our fence when we moved in. Because it was making our driveway hard to use, we cut the trunk on our side all the way down to maybe 6 inches. Three years later there are slender branches arching over my head. It's no longer in the way of the cars, so I let it be.
If it were me, I'd cut it down. It might come back, and if not, you got rid of a plant that wasn't doing well anyway. Win-win.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
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thanks ... pruned it practically to the ground.
thrive or die ... either way, i'm good.
The soil is probably out of whack. Go to a good garden store and get some copper powder. Mix this with some fresh compost. Let sit overnight. Rake away GENTLY some of the soil from around the roots and put the mix all around the plant. Water well to get the nutrients down into the ground.
Lilacs need copper to produce lush blooms. I do this every spring and fall around my three lilacs (Purple pink and yellow) and get lush blooms. The purple has started to flower and the yellow looks like it might be flowering soon. The pink won't flower until June.
While the copper powder was a bit expensive. A 10 oz bottle has lasted me six years so far and there is more left.