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 ...

A Bloomerang lilac tree is a registered trademark hybrid that's bred to grow smaller than a common lilac bush. It features clusters of lavender and purple flowers with four splayed petals.

It has lavender purple flowers borne in panicles like the common lilac but not nearly as large. While there is a fragrance to this lilac, it does pale in comparison to the old-fashioned types and ...

Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...

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 ...

Depending on the variety, lilac blooms can be purple, lavender, blue, blush, pink, white, ivory, creamy yellow, yellow, or bicolor. If you are looking for an exciting color, try syringa vulgaris ...

Lilac and think of England: They’re beautifully fragrant and quintessentially English, and best of all they don’t have to be purple By CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 17:30 EDT, 20 April 2012 ...

Our familiar common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a native of the mountains of southeastern Europe. It was brought to the courts of Vienna in the 1500s and rapidly spread throughout northern Europe.

S.v. ‘Sensation’ is sensational, with showy trusses of dark purple, each flower outlined in white. S. pubescens subsp. patula ‘Miss Kim’: Unlike its common kin, Korean lilac blooms ...

Texas lilac, also known as chaste tree (Vitex), is a beautiful specimen with purple flowers that bloom in midsummer, imparting a delightful scent that wafts through gardens in zones 6-9.