We have a ‘Sensation’ lilac on the Purdue West Lafayette campus that shows such reversion each year on several branches, sometimes occurring on just a few flowers within the cluster. You could remove ...

With any type of lilac, you should only prune branches right after the flowers fade to enjoy maximum spring color the next year. New lilac buds from on old wood.

Light pruning of dead or damaged lilac branches should be done right after flowering finishes, but there’s an incentive for starting earlier, during peak bloom: Your remuneration will be paid in ...

The poster, made by Wheatland artist Diane Elmslie and showing a lilac branch and a blue bird, was sketched and then filled in with pieces of colored paper. The festival unveils a new poster every ...

If you're having a hard time slicing through the stem, soak your lilac branches in fresh water for 20 minutes or so to soften them and make them easier to cut cleanly.

If your lilac is very thin and lanky, renovate it by removing the oldest branches gradually over two or three consecutive seasons, always in the late spring. Oregon gardening.

Rochester, N. Y. – Residents and staff at St. John’s of Rochester are getting in the spirit of the Lilac Festival. They spent Tuesday creating a poster in time for the festival. Using their ...

On lilac and viburnum, small spots expand to irregularly shaped brown lesions with yellow halos (Fig. 1). For most other hosts (cherry, pear, basswood, dogwood, hydrangea, high bush-cranberry, ...

Lilac Syrup Recipe. Makes 8 ounces. 1 cup water; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup fresh lilac flowers, about 3 large stems or thryses; Working over a bowl, pinch the individual lilac flowers off the plant.

Helen Rosner writes about the scent of lilac bushes when she was growing up in the Midwest, and about the social-media influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson, a.k.a. BlackForager, whose tutorial on how ...