{"id":20893,"date":"2020-05-25T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:49:11","slug":"having-a-good-lilac-season-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/having-a-good-lilac-season-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a Good Lilac Season 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><br \/>\nSorry if this post is a bit repetitive from one at the beginning of May but my mind is socially distanced from my memory. My garden lilac has never smelt so good but I am sure the colour has been stronger in previous years.<\/p>\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<p>The white lilac has been OK but lacks pizzaz despite the blue skies and strong sunshine. Perhaps it is a lack of focus and I should polish my <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/photography-tips-for-gardeners\/\">photography skills.<\/a><\/p>\n<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\" \/><br \/>\nThe best varieties have been the darker purples which I have spotted on my lockdown compliant walks around the village. <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/photographs-from-our-2000-posts\/\">Ten years ago<\/a> the gardens looked very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if this post is a bit repetitive from one at the beginning of May but my mind is socially distanced from my memory. My garden lilac has never smelt so good but I am sure the colour has been stronger in previous years. The white lilac has been OK but lacks pizzaz despite the blue skies and strong sunshine. Perhaps it is a lack of focus and I should polish my photography skills. The best varieties have been the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/having-a-good-lilac-season-2020\/\"> 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","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=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20897,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions\/20897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}