“Bloomerang Dwarf Purple” grows like Bloomerang Dwarf Pink, but with purple flowers. “Bloomerang Pink Perfume” grows 4 to 5 feet tall and wide with highly fragrant, pink flowers. “Bloomerang Purple” ...

Waiting a whole year to enjoy the lush beauty and scent of lilacs is so hard, so of course we’ve fallen in love with this lilac that delivers fragrant blooms through three seasons! And amazingly ...

Dear Master Gardener: I just planted a Bloomerang lilac. Do I need to protect it over the winter since it is newly planted? Answer: Great choice! Bloomerang lilac has a lot of flower power and is a ...

Class divisions are emerging with the arrival of a new lilac. It’s seen as either a garish freak or a great innovation. The Bloomerang lilac won’t be available at your local nursery until next spring, ...

Just when I thought public opinion could not be more polarized, along comes another contentious, hot-button issue. It seems there’s no middle ground in the debate over Bloomerang. The new introduction ...

People who love lilacs know a certain urgency, for the flowers don’t last long. At the nursery where I’ve worked on and off for seven years, there are always customers who reliably march in during the ...

Late April and early May in the Northwest are high season for all kinds of lilacs. They are coming into full bloom and their heavenly fragrance is enough to put even this cantankerous gardener into a ...

As I’m sitting at home writing this column, a terrier snores on the ottoman next to me and the heady fragrance of lilacs fills the air. When the “Sensation” lilac burst into bloom this week, I ...

FARGO — Count the day lost you don’t learn something new, as the old saying goes, and today’s a good day because I learned something new. I didn’t know lilacs are edible. Fresh, fragrant lilac flowers ...

The sight and fragrance of lilacs, blooming in shades from deep violet-purple to pink to white, are among the splendors of spring. If you’d like to have that splendor in your yard, be careful about ...