Q: About eight years ago, I separated some shoots from a flowering lilac bush in to grow on in my yard. I did this in the spring before the blooming started. The plants were about 12 inches when we ...

My first thought was Mother Nature is off her meds. Then I investigated. Courtesy photo Multiple horticultural journal ...

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 ...

It’s my favorite time of year—when the spring breeze picks up the heady, ambrosial perfume of our fleeting lilacs. We open all the windows in our house and let our fluffy backyard bushes waft through ...

The lush fragrance of lilacs is one of the delights of spring. Most neighborhoods have a few lilac bushes, covered in late April or early May with clusters of tiny purple flowers shaped like bunches ...

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 ...

Nothing takes me back to the Midwestern pastoral of my youth quite like the smells of springtime: freshly cut grass with an edge of lawnmower fuel, the sweet ozone of an imminent thunderstorm. Most of ...

Crowds took in the sweet smell of lilacs and food trucks Sunday at the Harvard Arnold Arboretum’s Lilac Sunday. Each year, the park throws a celebration, that in recent years has coincided with Mother ...

Amazingly, it's May and somehow we are on the brink of summer, a time when flowers — and flower shows — are blooming profusely around Southern California. If you don't mind a little drive, take a day ...

Lilac Time is officially underway in Lombard through May 15. But this year, mother nature hasn't been fully cooperating with the signature festival of "The Lilac Village." The Lombard Park District ...

Asked to name her favorite flower in a Facebook post, wedding florist Trista Rose Guillaume Miller didn’t hesitate. “Lilacs. Probably my favorite flower,” Miller wrote. “I have fond memories of ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The 2023 Lilac Festival will run for ten days in a row instead of three weekends in a row as it did for 2021 and 2022. The City of Rochester announced the schedule on Tuesday for the ...