I have a lilac tree at the end of my garden which is growing at a fairly steep angle. This is great because it has grown into a natural arch and is also obscuring a horrible brick wall at the end of the garden. Should I be worried that it could eventually fall over? Is there anything else I can do to support it so that I don't need to cut it back?
2007-02-13 00:45:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I have to agree with your first answer, unless for some reason you think the Lilac has been weakend, by wind etc I wouldnt worry about it. If you thinking it maybe weak for some reason, the use of a couple of well placed stakes and ties could be used.
2007-02-13 02:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by tassie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, first of all, you quite do no longer prefer to kill both the maple timber or the lilac bush. till they are both useless, demise or diseased. It irritates me at the same time as people ruin completely healthy timber basically because they are "in the way". There are more beneficial life like the thanks to fixing the problem. Trim about the right a million/4 off the maple timber and likewise different decrease branches, to let more beneficial image voltaic to the lilacs. next, you are able to also decrease the lilac each and each and every of how right down to about 2 or 3 ft above the floor and eliminate each and each and every of the former, dried up useless shoots from the bottom. do no longer eliminate some thing it is "eco-friendly", it is termed the "new timber". once you get it trimmed up and wiped clean out precise you'd be shocked how rapidly and fully it is going to improve again. It gained't produce any blossoms this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, too previous due in the season already, yet through next spring there must be lots of vegetation on it. it may well be too confusing and volatile to the lilac to target to dig it up and transplant it. they have a very confusing and gentle intertwining root equipment which kinds one tremendous clump. at the same time as digging up shrubs and vegetation, you want to be careful to maintain the rhyozomes in the guidelines of the roots which supply food to at least some thing else of the plant. solid success and "satisfied Gardening"!
2016-12-04 03:09:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Lilac will balance itself by root movement to keep itself from falling over . "Be Happy .....Don't Worry" Maybe that sounds confusing so may I explain the roots will grow in the same direction as the top. Be glad! Every thing is good! Its hiding the unsightly view,let it grow.
2007-02-13 01:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Tassie, don't wait for it to fall over - give aid with some stakes to support it.
Lilac do not have a huge root system and too much rain and or wind could cause it to topple.
2007-02-13 05:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by Barbados Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋