As winter approaches, it’s important to prepare your lilac bushes for frost. Mulch around the base with a thicker layer to ...

Even when branches are bare, younger lilacs show off an attractive branching pattern in winter. Lilacs generally produce more blooms on healthy, newer growth, rather than on older stems ...

“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 ( ...

Plants and trees have been feeling the impact of Minnesota’s mild winter and wet spring that followed. Some people have seen their lilac bushes looking a bit different this year and experts are ...

Some lilacs can grow for over 100 years ... Both types require a winter dormancy and a sunny location to bloom profusely. The bloom is composed of many small florets that have four petals each.

Kluck says the second blooming on traditional lilacs isn’t usually a full bloom like spring, but rather a blossom here and there. I also wonder if the second warmest winter on record threw off ...