Talk:Lilac
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I've removed evergreen. The ones in my garden (UK) currently have no leaves. If lilacs keep their leaves in certain climates, please restore with clarification -- Tarquin 19:01 Jan 15, 2003 (UTC)
Do we need this many pictures? How about a taxotable? Rissa of the saiya-jin 23:29, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I agree with you, I've removed the purple pic because the colour seems wrong, at least for the purple lilac we see here in England. The other three pics show different parts of the lilac (overall look, leaves and flowers) so should stay.
- Adrian Pingstone 07:52, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- That's the date I have on that batch of photos. It's also the date on a check I wrote the same day a block away from there. As for what's normal weather around here, nobody really knows any more. It used to be predictable. It's certainly a good fifteen degrees (fahrenheit) warmer than Taos, nearly all the time, and our lilacs in Taos would never bloom that early, but here it happens. However, here in Socorro County many years lilacs don't bloom much at all because they try for April and get nipped by frost. This past spring they didn't. ;Bear 21:20, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)
All right, you guys, I will get closeups of the leaves. ;Bear 21:56, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)
- Now that there are leaves again I got a picture. When I was in town today I went over to the same house and then discovered that I didn't have the camera with me so I removed a piece from the plant on the left and brought it home, and you can see it at
-- is this a lilac or a ceanothus? BTW they are nowhere near as far along this year as they were a month earlier last year. This year is more normal; last year was freaky warm. ;Bear 07:35, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
- Thanks; must admit I'm a bit baffled now. It isn't a lilac, and it isn't a Ceanothus either. The leaves look most like a privet, but I don't know of any privets with purple flowers, they have white flowers (and also flower much later in the summer) - MPF 15:15, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
- Daytime, better light, better pix -- a couple of leaves at
(front of one leaf) and 
(back of another) ... the -1 pix was pushed fairly hard with Graphic Converter to overcome the bright background; it's not mottled as it ended up looking. Does this help? ;Bear 17:21, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
- I've added a clear photo of lilac leaves to the article. It happens to be a white lilac but the leaves of a purple lilac are the same. I've taken away the previous leaf picture because it wasn't PD and didn't have a larger version - Adrian Pingstone 18:23, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks. Proves my point, proves I was right all along. My picture was a lilac as I originally maintained, freaky weather last spring notwithstanding. ;Bear 21:03, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
- Daytime, better light, better pix -- a couple of leaves at
- Thanks; must admit I'm a bit baffled now. It isn't a lilac, and it isn't a Ceanothus either. The leaves look most like a privet, but I don't know of any privets with purple flowers, they have white flowers (and also flower much later in the summer) - MPF 15:15, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
