We’ve all been lamenting this rainy and cool summer that nature has so cruelly doled out this year, but there are bonuses and unexpected delights that wouldn’t be present in a perfectly sunny summer season. Take, for instance, these Korean lilac blooms, which seem to have been tricked into coming out again after a few cool and rainy days and nights – the kind of weather they prefer in the late spring.
They will usually throw out one or two small re-blooms, which are often lost amid the cacophony of high summer, but this time around there are several small bunches of blossoms, and they carry the same delicious scent that they have in spring – a happy reminder of the days when the season was just beginning.
When faced with a light mist and cooler temperatures, these blooms last as long as they would in their typical blooming period. Once again, a silver lining in such an overcast season. Well, a lilac lining, as it were.
