Depending on the variety, lilac blooms can be purple, lavender, blue, blush, pink, white, ivory, creamy yellow, yellow, or bicolor. If you are looking for an exciting color, try syringa vulgaris ...

Lilac, lilac bush, common lilac Plant type: Perennial: Size 8-15' tall: Sun exposure Full sun to partial shade: Soil type Well-drained and loamy: Soil pH Neutral: Flower color Lavender, blue ...

Depending on the variety, lilac blooms can be purple, lavender, blue, blush, pink, white, ivory, creamy yellow, yellow, or bicolor. If you are looking for an exciting color, try syringa vulgaris ...

Staten Island Advance/Frank J. JohnsExcept for roses, there are no flowers as beautiful and aromatic as lilacs. Did you know that the life expectancy of lilacs is 350 years or more? Lilacs planted ...

Most of these shrubs are common lilac (Syringa vulgaris). “It’s grandma’s lilac,” said Kris Bachtell, vice president of collections at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “Everybody knows it.” ...

By removing the old flower, the plant will send its energy into developing the bud instead of the seed heads. If you have a lilac bush that needs to be scaled down, now is the best time to do it.

Mike McGrath explains how to get rid of yellow jackets and borers safely, what benefits thousand-leggers offer, the best way to grow a palm tree indoors, how to prune vines from a lilac bush, and why ...

Letters and e-mails continue on an earlier column on my misidentification of the pesky week yellow nutsedge - which was, in fact, a plant called Star-of-Bethlehem and the woes raccoons cause plant ...