Lilacs

This is a short and sweet post to share one of my all-time favorite blossoms: lilacs. I have love lilacs and their scent since I was a child. I've met so many people who call them "old lady" or "grandma" flowers, but to me they are just too intoxicating to miss in the Spring garden.

I picked these today from my two big bushes out front of my dining room windows. The light colored ones are an unknown variety, but the darker blooms are "My Favorite" variety that I purchased from the famed Hulda Klager Lilac Farm in Washington. Hulda cultivated hundreds of varieties, this being her favorite. It has practically no scent but had deeper double-petaled blossoms. How can you not love that?

I also have an unknown deep pink lilac in the back yard that was here with the house when we bought it. And I have a dwarf korean lilac, and a fern-leafed variety, and of course, the "california" lilacs, Ceanothus...which aren't lilacs at all, but really cool in their own way.

I'm gonna stop with all my geeky lilac love, but just let me tell you that I can smell them right next to me and my laptop and they're just heavenly. Go out and get yourself some lilacs and enjoy them yourself! So good!