Tips on how and when to prune lilacs to keep your shrub healthy. When to prune lilacs is just as important as how you prune ...

Lilacs are very popular shrubs thanks to their beautiful, fragrant flowers that bloom in late spring. Come fall, that peak performance is behind them, so thoughts may turn to what you can do to help ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! What a change! The first week of May feels like March. Cool temperatures and rain have dominated our weather the last few days. However, do not give up ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Lilacs are a sign of spring. They typically boom in mid-to-late May in northcentral Wisconsin. Lilacs are among the best-smelling blooms of the entire year and they’re so tough ...

CORVALLIS — The lush fragrance of lilacs defines late spring. These beauties are as durable as they are lovely. They are cold hardy, city-tough and not picky about soil. They make vigorous tall ...

If you grow lilacs in your landscape, chances are that you are enjoying that heavenly fragrance that lilacs are known for. Lilacs ( Syringa vulgaris) are one of the most popular deciduous shrubs ...

Here begins the story of a flower, a tale of identity, pride, and hubris. I. Pride Mary Colvard and her husband retired to Nottingham, New Hampshire after living and working in New York. Driving into ...

Somehow it’s May, and I hope you, unlike me, have already planted your warm-season veggies. As usual, I bought too many tomato plants and, as I write this in late April, they are still sitting on a ...

When I think of lilacs, I usually think of fragrant, pale-purple blossoms that are a harbinger of spring. But a different kind of lilac is earning a place in the Midwest landscape and my memory bank, ...

ACTON — With a deft, strong flip of her wrist, Elizabeth Billet wrenches a branch from a 7-foot-tall lilac bush, then instinctively sniffs the aroma of the heavy red-purple buds just barely hinting to ...

Q: Why are these lilacs blossoming in late October in Fargo? — John N. A: I can almost smell the fragrance from here! What a beautiful bouquet of lilacs. Why are lilacs blooming in October? I’ve ...

One of Minnesota’s favorite spring flowers are blooming again in late summer, a sign of stress from the extreme swings in Minnesota’s weather over the past several years. Many lilacs across the Twin ...