What makes lilacs bloom

Pruning can also affect flowering. The best time to prune lilacs is immediately after flowering in spring. Pruning lilacs in late summer, fall, or winter may remove many of their flower buds.

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Lilac bushes prefer full sun. Transplant shock. You may just have to give your lilacs another year to get over this. Sometimes a late freeze can knock the flowers or the start of the flowers right off the bush. If your lilac bush is not blooming, you might want to think back and think about whether or not there was a late freeze. Lilac bushes set buds on old wood, so prune and shape them right after they finish blooming. Lilac bushes are not native to North America. For centuries, the Turks cultivated the species.

Then, in the s, lilac bushes arrived in Vienna and Paris. Finally, these European specimens made the journey to the New World, and lilac bushes graced the gardens of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. If you clip blooms from your lilac bushes for an arrangement, extend their freshness by changing the water in the vases daily and mist their petals, which can absorb water. Cold winters and sunny, warm summers with adequate precipitation provide ideal growing conditions.

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