lilacs

Beautiful layout.

I too, love lilacs and miss the beautiful one we had at my childhood home. Unfortunately, they don't flourish here in my Southern region now as they need the cold over winter. I have recently heard of some type of pink ones that will bloom here but have to check into it further. I'd rather have the "lilac" colored ones though.
Don't lose heart with yours. Try to seal the broken part in some way. I don't know if wax or tar will do the trick but a neighbor used tar when I was a kid and it always worked but I'd check first. Look for little nodes or even odd-looking greenery sprouting very close to the base - these may be new trees sprouting off of the roots (depending on how established the root system was - I had this happen to a mimosa transplant that was accidentally mowed over - and got 3 off-shoots that grew).

This page is a work of art!

oohh this one is so pretty -- captured my attention - all drifting beautifully together.

Don't give up on the lilac - it will most likely come back!!! When we bought our house, there was an enormous stump in the side yard (1.5-2 feet across) with weedy looking twigs growing out of it. It looked awful & I thought about digging it out but had other things to deal with. A year or two later, those weedy twigs, now 2-3 feet high bloomed. The ugly mess turned out to be a very, very old lilac that had been so damaged in a hurricane before we bought the house that it had to be cut down (the previous owner said she cried when they did). Years later, it is well over 10' high & blooms every May - & I'm sooooo glad I didn't have time to dig up that ugly old stump!!

Just stunning!