How do you get more blooms on a Lilac Bush?

Lilac blooms only grow on last years growth. Dont trim your bush until after it blooms

How do you get more blooms on a Lilac Bush?
I have had that problem and thought if I trim them it would help but it didn%26#039;t they just kept getting bushier.


The ones I have seen that have the most blooms and are so full are the ones that have never been cut or trimmed. They are usually growing by a pole or out in the wild somewhere.


Mine got so big and bushy I had to cut them down because I couldn%26#039;t mow around them without getting stabbed by a branch.
Reply:Don%26#039;t trim your lilac bush. It will do fine with out it. You will want to take out any dead branches from the middle of the bush.
Reply:This may be an old gardener%26#039;s tale, but we used to throw the apples that had started to go bad onto the ground in the center of the lilac bush. Supposedly, the decaying apples give off a gas (natural, of course) that stimulates flowering.





We also did oranges and grapefruit, too, but that%26#039;s because the lilac bush was alot closer than the compost pile :)



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