I was supposed to write the Farm Side today.
And I honestly tried.
But the house is abuzz with everybody home.
And the boss offered to help me rustle lilacs.
I mean what would you do faced with such choices? I am just inside to now to see if you can root lilac cuttings with rooting hormone. Web research says yes, so I am gonna give her a go.
We also got some rooted suckers. We had to clamber down a challenging, brush covered slate bank over by the barn, just beyond the old falling down house where the boss lived when he was growing up. I am all scratched up but I'll bet it will be worth it.
He planted those lilacs for his mom when he was a little boy. The house down in town is surrounded by a number of them that I rustled back when we lived down there, but up here on the Dimond Farm side of the place there are only a few plain purple ones and a dwarf pink that I brought up (all frost nipped this year). We are hoping some of the ones we brought out of the jungle are the reddish ones that were Grandma Peggy's favorites. There are some spindly peony bushes over there too, valiantly sending up buds, despite being shaded by dozens of invading honeysuckles and box elders and who knows what all. I think I will see if Alan will dig those for me.....and maybe get a piece of the forsythia the boss planted by the foundation when he was just a tyke....
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I MISS GRANMA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, me too kiddo. I think of her all the time when I am out working in what was her yard and gardens.
I have a very small patch of lilacs growing from suckers I took from my late grandmother's property. I will take a piece of that bush with me if I ever move from here, and keep her memory going. That lilac bush means a lot to me.
I didn't know you could root them, either! Otherwise I would have taken more from her old bushes!
Caroline, I can't wait to see how they do....
Old farms are the best - and the people who tend them are too! There is something about keeping that continous thread going, by bringing the plants to your house.
I bet your children will be doing the same with their children!
Thanks for the wonderful mental images.
It doesn't take very much of a root sucker to start lilacs, that's how I got 600 feet of mine:)
Nita, back before gas became more expensive than frankincense we used to drive around the back roads just looking at the land. I always felt a sort of melancholy delight at seeing a lilac bush and a patch of rhubarb as the only monuments to some long gone farm house...they seem to go on forever, whether anyone takes care of them or not.
Linda, they are certainly hardy. down in town there is one that I just pulled up out of the ground because I was carrying Liz in a backpack and couldn't bend over.
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