Discover how to grow lilac, Syringa, and you can enjoy clusters of fragrant blooms in mauve, pink, purple, or white in the springtime. Meet their simple needs and lilacs are easy to care for, ...

Q: About eight years ago, I separated some shoots from a flowering lilac bush in to grow on in my yard. I did this in the spring before the blooming started. The plants were about 12 inches when we ...

Q: Around seven years ago I was given a lilac plant, which I planted in our back yard. It gets several hours of direct sun each day. The leaves have always had a healthy green with no mold. It is now ...

Someone who lived in our house long before us, planted three lilac bushes along the border on one side of our yard. More than fifteen feet tall and nearly six to ten feet wide now, these mature, ...

Why is my lilac tree so temperamental? Last year, it would not bloom. This year there were 44 blossoms on it. That beats the record of two years ago when it presented 13 blooms. The lilac tree is not ...

Lilacs are popular backyard shrubs renowned for their sweet blooms and can be propagated in various ways. It's possible to grow them from cuttings, from suckers, or from seed. One of the reasons ...

If a plant is healthy and relatively unstressed, the normal seasonal move to cooler weather triggers dormancy.