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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: Fleecewife on June 19, 2014, 09:22:18 am

Title: Lilac
Post by: Fleecewife on June 19, 2014, 09:22:18 am

Hi All

Some advice please.   Should I take off the dead heads from my lilac?  It looks so sad with brown shrivelled flowers after its flowering glory  :tree:

Title: Re: Lilac
Post by: Bert on June 19, 2014, 09:46:25 am

I found this.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=129 (http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=129)


It's under what and when to dead head


Hope it helps

Title: Re: Lilac
Post by: Fleecewife on June 24, 2014, 11:40:29 pm

Perfect Bert - thank you very much.  It tells me to remove the dead heads from lilac with secateurs, so that's what I'll be doing tomorrow while I'm waiting for the second day for a parcel delivery  :rant: