{"id":20841,"date":"2020-05-04T19:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2020-05-04T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:53:08","slug":"gather-lilacs-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gather-lilacs-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Gather Lilacs  in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20840\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/menston-004-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like a good year for &#8216;Blossom Dearie&#8217; and no more so than with<em> <span class=\"ILfuVd rjOVwe\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Syringa<\/span><\/span><\/em> the various Lilacs in the varied shades of lilac and white. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20839\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile063-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Renown as a tall shrub or small tree\u00c2\u00a0 there are also dwarf lilacs amongst the dozen of so species and sub-species.<\/li>\n<li>There are some hybrids with double flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Lilacs are most justly famous for their perfume from the conical flower heads that is redolent of spring.<\/li>\n<li>The variety Charles\u00c2\u00a0 Joly is almost purple.<\/li>\n<li>For<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=13153&amp;action=edit\"> Lilac growing hints and tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7604&amp;action=edit\">photographs of more blossom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20844\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile289.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile289-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile289-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/188-file-pile289-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like a good year for &#8216;Blossom Dearie&#8217; and no more so than with Syringa the various Lilacs in the varied shades of lilac and white. Renown as a tall shrub or small tree\u00c2\u00a0 there are also dwarf lilacs amongst the dozen of so species and sub-species. There are some hybrids with double flowers. Lilacs are most justly famous for their perfume from the conical flower heads that is redolent of spring. The variety Charles\u00c2\u00a0 Joly is almost purple&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gather-lilacs-in-the-spring\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}