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    Look forward to lilacs

    Jun 21, 2022 3 minutes

    This extract from AG 14 March 1964 looks at how to grow tall plants that don’t need staking

    WHILE admiring the colour and scent of lilacs in spring, did you make notes about the varieties you saw and liked so you could order them for autumn delivery? In case you did not, I shall jog your memory.

    First, however, allow me to remark that lilacs in general take poorly to life in containers. Even as youngsters they grow far more vigorously in the open ground and you will therefore do better to order them for autumn

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