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 ...

A rejuvenation prune involves cutting down a third or more of the lilac shrub’s height and width to force it into a fresh growth cycle. A rejuvenation pruning should be done in late winter when ...

4). Choose zone appropriate plants to avoid freeze damage and/or winter injury. Choose disease resistant plants, when available. The following lilac varieties were found to be resistant over a ...

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 ...