The lilac blossoms in a few months

Lilac is an ornamental flower. When it blooms, the flowers are gorgeous and fragrant. Many people like it. How many months does lilac bloom?

1. The growth habits of lilac

Syringa is a shrub or small tree belonging to Oleaceae and Syringa. Its flowers are generally lilac, purple or blue. Its main distribution areas are Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong and other places.

Lilac grows in hillside jungle, ravine stream side, valley roadside and beach water side, elevation 300-2400 m. It is commonly cultivated in gardens north of the Yangtze River in China. Like warm, humid and sunny, many species also have a certain degree of cold resistance. After defoliation, transplant bare roots before germination, and plant in sunny places with fertile soil and good drainage.

Syringa likes light, grows weakly in shade or semi-shade and blossoms sparsely, has certain cold resistance and strong drought tolerance, is not strict with soil requirements, bears barren soil, likes fertile and well-drained soil, avoids planting in low-lying land, accumulated water will cause diseases until the whole plant dies.

2. How many months does lilac bloom?

Syringa generally blooms in April and May of each year, but the climatic conditions vary from place to place, so the flowering time will also vary to a certain extent, subject to the actual flowering time.

3. What is the propagation method of lilac?

There are many propagation methods of lilac, such as sowing, cuttage, grafting, dividing plants, layering propagation, etc.

1. Sowing

Can be in spring, autumn two seasons are in indoor basin sow or open field furrow sow. In the north, spring sowing is the best, cold room pot sowing in late March, temperature maintained at 10-22℃, 14-25 days can emerge, emergence rate 40%-90%, if open field spring sowing, can be carried out in late March to early April.

2. Cutting

The method comprises the following steps of: selecting semi-lignified healthy branches of the current year as cuttings one month after flowering, wherein the cuttings are about 15 cm long, treating the cuttings with 50-100PPM indolebutyric acid aqueous solution for 15-18 hours, covering the cuttings with plastic film, rooting can be achieved after one month, and the rooting rate reaches 80 - 90 percent.