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    Blooming lovely

    Feb 02, 2022 5 minutes

    FASHION is fickle. Everyone says they love lilacs, yet no one seems to buy them. You see them in older gardens, but seldom in new. Nurserymen tell us that gardens have become smaller and garden-lovers want plants that will earn their keep all year round. It is true that one lilac takes up space that might more profitably be filled by dozens of bulbs and hardy perennials and yet…

    There are something between 12 and 25 species of . This botanical vagueness arises because the Chinese species have been insufficiently collected and studied. Moreover, the experts say that lilacs are close to privets —and many species look more like than . What most of us call garden lilacs descend from sweet-scented , which grows wild in Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia. Also important is from the Transylvanian

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