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Re: Lilacs, color change?

John, 
You asked:
> Four years ago, I bought some very nice white lilacs - 
> expense, but nice - and they have bloomed nicely every year.  Well, 
> almost every year!  This year the bloomed, but in a light lilac color
> instead of white!  Apart from aliens abducting my expensive white lilacs
> and replacing them with cheap Walmart plants, does anyone know what might
> cause this?  
Did you prune the plants hard?  Is it possible that these are grafted
plants (onto seedling rootstock) and the blooms that what you are getting
are from the understock?  I believe that most lilacs are grafted onto ash
seedlings as nurse plants, and then develop their own roots, or are
directly self-rooted.  But the use of seedling understock is also possible.
 

It is also possible that there's been a sport / mutation / reversion to the
lilac color.  If this happens, it would NOT affect every branch of every
plant, but only a single branch or portion of the clump.

Rick Grazzini
rickg@centrelab.com


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