I have a twice blooming lilac bush. It was planted rather close to the house and it's kind of forced to bloom out into the yard and I was looking at trimming it when can I trim it is it too late if it's already bloomed once? Should I wait till the fall after the second bloom falls off?
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It looks to me that it just needs to be staked. A nice wooden stake strategically placed would do the trick. Then you could use a sisal twine to tie back a couple of main branches.
That would get it up and off the lawn. Something so pretty would give me pause when it comes to trimming it.
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That doesn't look like a lilac.
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The leaves look kind of tiny for a lilac. But the blooms look like clusters of individual tiny lilac trumpet vine-like tubular flowers when I enlarged the picture... but then again, I have not had coffee this morning so nothing I say goes But I do like the flower display!!!
As for the trimming, I am not personally familiar with reblooming lilacs. Personally I would shape it after these first blooms, even if sacrificing later blooms. But I've always been one to fight the natural state of lilacs
I believe it's definitely a lilac. It has a lovely lilac sent I'll take closer pictures tomorrow. I have a lovely birch tree that was planted crooked are used twine and two stakes and it grew straight. Could I use a similar method with the lilac instead of trimming it?
Calif_Sue said:It's a pretty thing!.
I cut mine in half last fall, can't even tell now, filling in more rounded and looking good.
I believe I actually did trim it way back last fall and exploded again crazy how fast it grows. I think I'll trim it way back again but You're right I got a wait till the second bloom before I trim it
Yeah it bloomed awhile go. I'm not sure what they mean by right after the first bloom they mean like a day or two or a week or two.Tying them back seems to have done the trick for now
