I took a little walk around a mini arboretum that features mostly lilacs. They were mostly in peak bloom at this time and it smelled amazing there.
The Latin name of most of these lilacs is Syringa x hyacinthiflora. It seems there are many common names under that Latin name. Each of these had their own unique common name probably invented by the original person who created the unique breed of the plant.
This one's common name is Dark Night. It doesn't quite look like batman but I suspect a pollen eating bat would love tasting the pollen out of this one.
This one was called Asessippi with the name originating from Frank Skinner in 1932 named after the Asessippi region where it grows in Canada.
The common name of this one is Declaration. I suspect it got a bold name like this from its aroma that kind of resembles grapes and caramel popcorn mixed together.
This one is a Syringa vulgaris with a common name of Miss Ellen Willmott named after a British rosarian in 1903.
Here is another Syringa vulgaris called Yankee Doodle. I'm not sure who named it but this one had an almost strawberry cotton candy sort of smell.
This one is called Anabel originated by Frank Hawking an Iowan farmer in 1956. It was named after his wife Annabelle.
Here is a strange one called MORjos 060F marketed under the name of JOSEE. I wonder if this one was created in a lab with the help of a gene gun with a common name like that.
This one originates from a Lemoine Nursery in 1886 with a common name of President Grevy named after a French president Francois Paul Jules Grevy. I suppose if you get famous enough eventually a lilac will be named after you.
This is another Syringa vulgaris with a common name of General Sheridan by John Dunbar in 1917. It is named after an American soldier Henry Sheridan from the 1800s.
Here is a Syringa (Villosae Group) called the Dancing Druid by John Fiala in 1968. This one had the funniest name of the bunch.
Now for just some grown cover flowers that were planted for peak bloom.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
Yay! 🤗
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Amazing photography of the beautiful Lilacs.
Thanks, it smelled amazing there.
Interesting assortment of lilacs. Names definitely add some curiosity to the arboretum. Gives the lilacs some personality - back stories 🙂 We had lilacs when we lived in Minnesota. I haven't found any around the yard here but I am seeing them all around the area. I've been talking to my wife about planting some. Maybe on the edge of the woods. I agree with you they do smell wonderful.
If btc moons someday I would setup an arboretum of lilacs with some bee boxes nearby to see if the honey gets some of that unique fragrance in it.
Love the dof in your photographs @sketch.and.jam 🥰
It portrays the beauty of these flowers so well. If only we could smell them hahaha
The first one, is so sticking with the purple and orange in the back. Beautiful.
the orange in the background is a bunch of tulips.
Beautiful… 🥰 it makes that photograph rather special 😉
I wish I was a couple days early to that place, then the tulips would have been in perfect condition.
Ooo I can imagine, they were already pretty far open 😎
These are some beautiful photos of the different lilacs @sketch.and.jam!! I can just imagine the fragrant aroma accompanying them. I've always liked the pink and purple lilacs over the white ones but they are all very pretty! 💖
Some of them look almost exactly the same but smell slightly different.
We have Lilacland near us, but it's not been open for 3 years now due to covid. :(( Love all your photos and the fact you could identify each one. :))
Fortunately there were signs next to each one and I took pictures of them, otherwise I wouldn't have remembered all those names.
Now that's cool! I don't think there's any at Lilacland...
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Very beautiful!😊
Luckily I made it there on time. I think all of them are starting to get past their prime by now.