Try something like Burpee organic fertilizer, available from Amazon. Common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, can grow anywhere from ...

If you want to attract more hummingbirds to your yard, the key is adding plenty of colorful, low-maintenance flowering plants ...

One of the signature indicators of spring is the gently wafting scent of the common lilac (syringa vulgaris). I look forward to daily checking my mail because of the lilac bush by the mailbox.

“What the lilac wants is a nice cold winter that emerges gradually into spring.” Early bloomers, such as the hyacinth lilacs (Syringa x hyacinthiflora) — hybrids between the common lilac ( ...

Local lilac shrubs are starting to bloom this week with their beautiful colored flowers and sweet fragrance. The common purple lilac, Syringa vulgaris, or “old fashioned” lilacs bloom for ...

The majority of more than 1,600 lilac cultivars are descended from Syringa vulgaris (common lilac), and is one of the types we see in our area. Most lilacs do best with winter chill (at least 6 weeks ...

Most lilac species come from Asia, while the common lilac hails from eastern Europe. Lilac Sunday visitors can take a guided tour with an expert or an independent tour with the Arboretum’s ...

Observers are reporting very early leaf outs of the common lilac in Pennsylvania, the brilliant yellow blossoms of forsythia in Maine and American witch hazel in New York, said Theresa Crimmins ...

Most lilac species come from Asia, while the common lilac hails from eastern Europe. Other springtime flowers blooming at the arboretum in May include crabapple trees and rhododendrons.

We saw the Meyer lilac, littleleaf lilac, Japanese tree lilac, nodding lilac, common lilac, cutleaf lilac, early lilac, Persian lilac and more. The information that came about all of these ...

Now to be clear, the variety of lilac I'm discussing here is the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) as there is a newer variety called Bloomerang that blooms in the spring and again after the heat of ...