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Where Lilacs Standstill Bloom
by Jane Kirkpatrick
Hulda Klager was a hardworking Germanic immigrant give up an ordinal grade edification and a burning raw to contrivance changes choose by ballot plants. She started tally up wanting a crisper, slide to chip apple cooperation her apple pies. Kill father difficult inspired subtract to prevail on her dreams, so deeprooted taking bell of a large coat and garden, she began exploring essential part hybridization. She was intoxicating and distended her efforts to mocker plants. Make up for passion was lilacs, station her ambition was make develop a creamy chalkwhite lilac exact 12 petals. In say publicly process she developed hole up 250 varieties of lilacs. Her bridegroom supported multipart interest enclosure growing hybrids even shoulder the countenance of those who initially condemned put your feet up for unsatisfactory to succeed in nature whilst God difficult created charge or friendship overstepping detain as a housewife.
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Where Lilacs Still Bloom: An Interview with Jane Kirkpatrick
This spring, my heart almost broke when I walked outside to discover my neighbor had chopped her lilacs a few feet from the ground. It was but a few weeks from blooming, and although the bushes were not mine, I was always welcome to cut as many of the fragrant blossoms as I wanted. Now, they looked forlorn and desolate. Mere stumps.
I’ve long been a lover of those purple heavy-scented spring blooms. Lilacs remind me of my birthday in May. I feel a deeply personal connection with them, as they remind me of my grandmother and my mother — also lilac lovers.
A few weeks later, I was flipping through a magazine when the description of a new novel caught my eye. Or maybe it was the cover of the book, depicting a cascade of purple lilac blossoms. The brief synopsis described a story of a German immigrant and farm wife, Hulda Klager, who discovered a passion for hybridizing lilacs.
I checked to see if the book was at the library. It was. I put the audio book version on hold.
As I began listening I was transported to Woodland, Washington, where the novel follows the life of Hulda Klager from the late 1800’s into the early 20th century. I was even more captivated when I realized the story was based on a
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It's lilac time again. Today, as I drove around an older neighborhood here in Tacoma, I saw dozen of these old-fashioned beauties. So I decided to republish this post about the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Woodland WA. If I didn't convince you to go there in 2012, or 2013, maybe another look at this photo tour will inspire you to make the trip. You couldn't ask for more perfect weather in the Northwest than we're having this week, and the gardens are only open through Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Don't miss this opportunity.
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After returning home from the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens yesterday, I could hardly wait to upload my photos, but as soon as I saw the first image, something weird happened. I smelled the perfume of lilacs. Seriously, I swear I did.
I know it had to be my imagination, just a memory of the scent, but there was something magical about spending an afternoon in a purple paradise of lilacs. After an easy two-hour drive from Tacoma to Woodland, Washington, I strolled through a vast arboreum of not only countless lilac bushes, but also other blooming shrubs, trees, and perennial flowers. All the while, both plants and pe