Lilac Dreams

by Penny Meyers

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Lilac Dreams

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Penny Meyers

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Photograph - Photography

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It's my favorite week of the year... the one when the lilacs are in bloom! Perhaps that's why everyone loves lilacs, we are gifted with their presence for such a short time each year.



Per Wikipedia, Syringa vulgaris (lilac or common lilac) is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills. 
The specific epithet vulgaris means "common" - not a pejorative reference, but merely indicating that this is the most widespread lilac species. 
Common lilac tends to flower profusely in alternate years, a habit that can be improved by deadheading the flower clusters after the color has faded and before seeds, few of which are fertile, form. At the same time twiggy growth on shoots that have flowered more than once or twice can be cut to a strong, outward-growing side shoot. 
It is widely naturalised in western and northern Europe. In a sign of its complete naturalization in North America, it has been selected as the state flower of the state of New Hampshire, because it "is symbolic of that hardy character of the men and women of the Granite State".

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