Yesterday, I commented on my rather shaky (to put it mildly) knowledge of botany; actually, it is even worse than I thought! Back on April 6, I mentioned “blooming lilacs” in reference to a plant like the one shown here. For whatever reason, I was always convinced that these were lilacs. As alert reader Sabine from Basel was good enough to point out, these are, in fact, Wisterias. Of course, this begs the question what lilacs really look like. Once again, the same alert reader came through with a photograph of lilacs from her own garden; you can take a look here. Maybe I should have held on to the book that allowed one to identify plants, but honesty compels me to admit that I was always abysmally bad at that. Better to learn from those who know...