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- Standing amidst a Korean-type lilac — the only full-blossoming lilac during Saturday’s Lilac Festival at the McLaughlin Garden in Paris — is horticulturist Kristin Perry. Typically, the Garden’s French lilacs, “which everybody knows and loves,” she said, are in full bloom. But not this year. They bloomed about a week and a half earlier in discombobulated fashion, Perry said. Still, crowds have been “good and steady,” she said. The Lilac Festival continues Sunday.
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- Finding full French lilac blossoms takes some effort during this weekend’s Lilac Festival at McLaughlin Garden in Paris. Unseasonably warm weather in March, followed by a hard freeze for a week or so, and then heavy rains, all likely adversely affected the amount and longevity of blossoms, Cece Adamson, of the festival Welcoming Committee at the Garden gate, said early Saturday afternoon.
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- Adding insult to injury from French lilacs blooming earlier than usual instead of during the Lilac Festival this weekend in Paris, McLaughlin Garden horticulturist Kristin Perry said she rounded a corner of lilac bushes while leading a tour on Saturday and walked right into these swarming honeybees. Luckily, a beekeeper happened to be in the tour and said he’d help her capture them.
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