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I have to bump this up. Mom and I are buying a house! Totally unplanned. Just found a house and decided to buy it. How the heck do I transplant part of these lilacs when it will probably still pretty cold. I don't think we'll have our current house past early March. I really need to find a way to save part of my uncle's lilacs.
Since your old house could be sold before your lilacs stop blooming and the ground warms up; have you thought about asking the new owners if they would consent to you coming back after the sale and taking cuttings or removing some of the shoots off the runners? If you explain how important it is I am sure they would not mind; as long as you don't go overboard. You might even teach the new owners how to propagate more lilacs?
I have a Miss Kim that is not doing well after a few years. I need to try moving it, since it’s obviously struggling. It’s in a dry sunny area, so maybe it want some shade.
We planted a lilac bush 3 years ago. It was basically a stick. Each year it has a few more leaves on it, but no blooms. This summer, my idiot brother-in-law mowed it down. Will it come back?
We planted a lilac bush 3 years ago. It was basically a stick. Each year it has a few more leaves on it, but no blooms. This summer, my idiot brother-in-law mowed it down. Will it come back?
Probably. Just wait and see. You know how a weed can grow through a crack in the sidewalk? Plants are very tenacious.
I have to bump this up. Mom and I are buying a house! Totally unplanned. Just found a house and decided to buy it. How the heck do I transplant part of these lilacs when it will probably still pretty cold. I don't think we'll have our current house past early March. I really need to find a way to save part of my uncle's lilacs.
Did you not follow through and start cuttings during the past year?
Did you check around under the lilac bushes to see if there are any small suckers you can dig up to take with you? I think if you didn't already start cuttings then at this point digging up some suckers/shoots will be your most reliable option left available to you now.
Your other option would be to ask the new owners to give you permission to come back one day after spring blooming is over and take some cuttings.
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In the past I have dug up Lilacs and other bushy plants this time of year. What I have done is dig them up, then put them in a bucket with holes drilled in the bottom. I then dig a hole, and put the entire bucket in it. In the spring pull the bucket, and plant them where you want them. To this date I've never lost one plant doing it this way. Trust me it works.
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