FRESH CUT GRASS & LILACS

[frank_f15]

After a wonderful day of working outside, planting. trees, cutting grass, a little dirt work. i now sit in the computer rm. window open and the smell of fresh cut grass mingled with the fragrance of the lilac bushes is overwhelming. does anybody else enjoy such things ? or is it just this old man? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( does anybody else enjoy such things ? )</font>

Are you kidding? I thought everyone did. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif And lilac is definitely my favorite flower fragrance.

 

[Egon]

Evening scented stocks.

Egon

 

[MossRoad]

Yep! Our lilacs are all done already. We had them in the house for about 3 weeks. Smelled great. On Sunday evening we took a walk through the local cemetery and found a neat little lilac bush. It had very small leaves and little flowers and it was just blooming. It had the most intense fragrance. That's how we found it. We smelled it first and followed the wind through the cemetery right to it. I hope to get a few cuttings off of it and start them in pots. It will be quite a few years before it blooms, but will be worth the wait.

 

[Golfgar4]

We have a large lilac bush right outside our patio door off of our dining room. It's also just a couple of feet away from a set of windows in our living room. I can sit on the couch in the evening and have the fragrance from the lilacs blow over me. I'll just sit there, and the fragrance can be so intense that I just close my eyes and concentrate on the wonderful aroma. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Unfortunately, it's been raining so much lately that we've needed to keep the windows closed and I think we're missing most of the best time for the lilacs! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[DAP]

Bird, you gotta get a noseful of Viburnum, if ya haven't already. Knocked Lilac (we have purple and white) down a notch.

 

[Bird]

Doug, I had to look that one up on Google since I don't recall ever hearing of Viburnum. I see one of the common names for some species is the snowball bush and my in-laws had one of those in West Virginia. Mighty nice, but I'll still take lilac. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[NIXON]

On my place I have Lilac and Honeysuckle . I love being able to open the windows and let those scents in ! I wish that I could find Tea Olives that would stand the winters up here . John

 

[r0GuE]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hope to get a few cuttings off of it and start them in pots. It will be quite a few years before it blooms, but will be worth the wait. )</font>

I think that is called a miss kim lilac. We have 4 nice ones in our back yard! I love them. My parents have one half as big as their house. I fell in love with that and the honey suckel when I lived there for a summer 3 years ago rehabing my new (old) house.

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Mighty nice, but I'll still take lilac )</font>

will vote with u here Bird! wonder why such a great smelling bush has such a short flowereing time?

 

[DAP]

Bird, just to make sure we are talking about the same item, check this link.

Some people here call them "spice bushes' but I'm not sure they are correct about that.

 

[Bird]

Yep, Doug, that link also mentions another name being the snowball bush and it looks like the one my in-laws had. They do smell nice, but not quite as nice to my old nose as the lilacs. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[r0GuE]

wow that's nothing like what I was thinking of. Mine are like mini lilacs in every way. That looks good too, but the proof is in the way the yard smells in the morning!

 

[DAP]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( .. but the proof is in the way the yard smells in the morning! )</font>

I have 7 lilac, 3 'snowball bushes', 2 climbing rose, 1 large wygelia and 4 blueberry bushes all within a 60 foot circle round the house ... for 10 days or so, the whole perimeter smells like a french hoochie [sic] house, with each scent intermingled. Wander 50 feet away from the circle and the aroma of the manure pile will clear your head instantly. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I left out wysteria because the SO planted these 4 years ago and has had no blooms yet. She's umm ... upset about this. Book says only after 5yrs or so.