If you want to give your lilac bushes a little boost to help encourage large blooms and bright colors, all you have to do is take a look around your home and garden. Turns out, these flowers are ...

Many plants benefit from some type of pruning, whether it's a conservative reshaping or a harder cut to rejuvenate. One plant that benefits greatly from pruning is the lilac shrub. Over time, lilacs ...

Cutting off dead and damaged wood and controlling the number of stems on the shrub are vital to lilac care. Left unpruned, mature lilacs become choked with old wood and deadwood and produce few ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y (WROC) — Is the Flower City's Lilac Festival the best flower festival in the country? From the Colorado Lavender Festival to the Portland Rose Festival and the Nashville Cherry Blossom ...

Lilacs are an icon of spring, blooming in shades from deep purple to pale lavender to white all over the Chicago area. Yet lilac bushes can be monsters. Hardy and resilient, a lilac can live for many ...

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 ...

Gardening expert Joe Swift has revealed a straightforward technique to ensure your lilacs bloom beautifully again next year. A lilac is a flowering shrub, or occasionally a small tree, celebrated for ...

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 ...

Not only are our gardens bursting with color right now, they are also giving off heavenly fragrances that sweep away the last vestiges of winter doldrums and COVID blues. Right now, Spokane’s namesake ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q. My lilacs have flowered nicely, but they are a bit overgrown. How drastically ...