Old lilac training

I have a lilac that is fifteen to twenty years old on the north corner ( about three feet away ) of my home that I would really like to pull closer to the porch and secure it so that it so that it ( 1 ) stops crowding my nieghbors tight drivway and ( 2 ) becomes an architectual feature of the home like those that I have seen on Machinaw Island in front of the cottages that the french erected when they held the Island back in the late 1800`s.

But there is a huge maple that shades the front of my small ( half a postage size ) suburban lot. I know that the lilac is mearly growing toward the sun but I was hoping upon hope that when I do beging to reign in the lilac that with some manure and mulch ( as one of todays articals sudjested for overall plant health ) that it would still produce at least a modest amount of blooms next year, as the lilac does bloom before the maple is fully foliated.

If you have`nt visited and seen Machinaw Island near  Michigans upper peninsula in the spring, then PUT THAT ON YOUR TO-DO LIST OF PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU GO, AND IT`S CHECK OUT TIME. As there are these small cottages that line the main street  that all have these ( like the cottages ) hundred year old lilacs that through the years where trained to grow whereas they where not bushy as many usually are rather they are trained like a vine so that the front of these cottages have these wonderful and breathtakingly fragrant blooms from these near anceint trees.