Lilac budding

A budding young talent is captured here over a period of a couple of weeks. I thought it would be interesting to see how much our lilac bush (or Syringa) leaves grow early in spring.

Starting on April 9th

Then April 16th

Mid-week update April 19th

Then April 23rd

 And finally April 30th

Well, not really 'finally' I suppose, but I'm going to stop at this point. Perhaps I'll add an edit once it gets to its later summer self.

Our lilac bush's spring growth

Took this first photo in mid-April, just as our lilac bush was starting to get into its spring growth.

It was nice to see something green starting out after a long winter!

Then, as I was looking at the lilac recently I wondered what this particular branch looked like now. It was hard to tell exactly which one it was, but I believe that it is this one:

(May not be exactly the same branch, but the new growth looked pretty similar on all of them. The stems have also changed colour making it harder to match.)

The new growth above this junction now measures about 60cm - that's roughly 2ft for those not yet comfortable with this new-fangled metric stuff - and that's after only 1 month!