It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature!

This is only the second time I have ever seen our lilac bush bloom again in October. This phenomenon occurs when flowering plants are subjected to stress (such as drought) in the summer, then having conditions regulate again during some warm days in the fall--sort of a fooling of the plant. Lilac's new buds form immediately after they are finished flowering in the spring, and some of those buds can at times rebloom in the fall. In my experience, the flowers that have rebloomed on our bush in October are smaller and fewer in number. The blooms (shown above and below) were captured on Monday, October 12, 2020. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.