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 ...

Lilac bushes are not only fragrant, but they also add interest and color to any landscape, re-blooming year after year. Known as some of the hardiest shrubs around ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — On a hobby farm between St. Cloud and Cold Spring, around 500 lilac bushes are in bloom. Fortunately, those Memorial Day storms left them relatively unharmed, still, the annual ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — All around us, lilacs are in bloom. As a general rule of thumb, Memorial Day weekend is when you can expect to see them, and they don't last all summer. So now is the best time to ...

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 ...

6 Little-Known Lilac Facts That May Surprise You Lilacs are of some of the hardiest and most fragrant flowering bushes in our gardens. But, there's more to this shrub than just beautiful, fragrant ...

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 ...

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 ...