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Gardening

In reply to the discussion: Lilacs at last [View all]

Curmudgeoness

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2. I feel the same way!
Sun May 5, 2013, 05:46 PM
May 2013

The old woman who lived next door to me, and shares the lilac bushes on the property line, would have the bushes trimmed every late summer or fall. I told her a hundred times when she complained about never having flowers that you can only trim them right after they are done blooming, or not at all.....and every year she did it late. Well she passed away a few years ago and her lazy grandson now lives there. The bushes are not trimmed anymore and bloom well.....and I was just outside sniffing lilac.

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