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. Last summer, we planted two small lilac bushes. Having grown up with lots of lilacs, I'm delighted to have them again. Some I have seen are more leaves than flowers in the spring while some are ...

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 ...

I have a very large, beautiful lilac bush. It's about 11 years old and 15 feet high. This year I cut numerous branches off of it where all of the leaves were completely dry. On other parts, the leaves ...

A dispute involving the illegal destruction of a well-known lilac bush in Aspen’s West End may be close to resolution. A contractor removed the large old lilac from a piece of public land in an alley ...

Q: My lilacs look like death-warmed-over this time of year. Do you know what’s wrong, and is there anything I can do at this point? A: Lilacs are sadly not very well-suited to our Mid-Atlantic ...

Q: I have a lilac that is covered with some kind of white fungus. It looks like it's been snowed on. I was going to take it out since I've only had one lilac bloom in 3 years. What's wrong with it, ...

Lilacs need full sunlight at least six hours daily. This is Hallelujah at Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens (CQ) in Woodland , Washington. (Marv Bondarowicz) When the slugs are chomping the hostas or the ...

I hate to be repetitive, but I guess this is the nature of a garden column that centers on what you should be doing from week to week and spans some years. New readers arrive and ask the questions ...