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Tall, fast-growing, lavendar double lilacs

19 years ago

Is there such a thing? I have several lilacs in a line by my fence as a baby privacy screen. I've decided to put my Sensation over on the other end of the line where it doesn't need to be as much of a privacy hedge since I read in another thread that it only grows to be about 8 feet tall. At the end of the line I have a James McFarlane and then an Old-Fashioned Lilac. I need one or two lilac shrubs to put by the Syringa Vulgaris. I want something that will grow tall. Preferably something fast growing. I also have two white lilacs (Krasavitsa Muscvy and Ellen Willmott) and a double dark purple (Adelaide Dunbar), so I'd like to have another lavender lilac but preferably something slightly different from the Old-Fashioned.

Clear as mud? I was thinking of a tall, double-flowered lavendar lilac.

I have a couple or three spaces left along that fence that could take lilacs. I'd like to be able to screen out the "neighbors from hell" as soon as they can get their little leaves in shape.

Comments (8)

  • 19 years ago

    Not quite to your specs, but consider the one developed in Russia called 'Nahdzaida' or something like that. It is more a very pale lavendar blue, double, and the bloom heads are a foot long. It is a vigorous plant.

  • 19 years ago

    I thought I had the neighbors from hell. LOL I'm using the common version of lilac on a shady, north-side of my house for a privacy fence and they are taking off rather well. The Maiden Blush aren't as full so I will be sticking to what works for me.
    These people have already sprayed Round-Up on my wild berry bushes I kept going to keep their kids out of my yard. They use my house as a backstop for their ball games. Don't you just love neighbors?????

  • 19 years ago

    Right after I moved in, like a couple weeks, they built duplexes five feet from my back fence, and on a hill so they can look right into my windows and my back yard. Then the neighbors come out with beer and cigarettes and watch me. The first day they were there, they called the city on me on a weed violation because my grass was getting tall from the heavy spring rains and I hadn't bought a lawn mower yet.

    Oh, yeah. Real nice people. Since they moved in, my property values have dropped $10,000.

    I want to get a lock on my gate, too. My pansies and viola were blooming spectacularly. Then I found big boot prints in the middle of the patch, and the flowers look like they were sprayed with something.

    Anyway, that's why I need real tall, fast-growing lilacs.

  • 19 years ago

    Geez, yes, a fence lock would definitely be in order!! I'd plant some picky barberry shrubs near the lilacs just to keep them out before the lilacs get to full heigth. I just bought 9 more lilacs myself. They were only 9.99 at Lowe's and Home Depot. Right now there is a good selection. Lots of Donald Wymans, James McFarlanes. Miss Kims (I don't think they grow very high), Sensations, and something called Presidential Grey. I'm making a wall of lilacs. Good luck with your neighbors. Save your receipts in case they start spraying your plants and you need to make a police report.

  • 19 years ago

    That's what I want, a wall of lilacs. Garden Crossings has one, Evangeline, that looks good. It's a double flowered lavender.

  • 10 years ago

    Do Syringa vulgaris lilac bushes grow fastPlease let me know Thank you

  • 10 years ago

    I bought 2 but they're only about 3 feet tall I got them off at etsy really good lilac bushes just the really small and wanted to know if they grow fast thanks: )

  • 10 years ago

    Fastest growing shrubs I've grown are the larger forms of Hydrangea paniculata. Bloom longer than lilacs, grew from 1' to 8' in 5 or 6 years.