After many years working as a professional gardener, these are my go-to plants to prune in July, for a thriving yard in the ...

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 ...

Dwarf Korean Lilac (Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'): Compact, suitable for small spaces, and highly fragrant. Understanding these ...

Lilac bushes are the stars of the show for a few fleeting weeks in late spring, but if you choose the right variety and care for them properly they can play their part in the summer garden too.

I look forward to daily checking my mail because of the lilac bush by the mailbox. It is an old bush, planted a few generations ago, and produces an abundance of purple blooms during April and May ...

With a deft, strong flip of her wrist, Elizabeth Billet wrenches a branch from a 7-foot-tall lilac bush, then instinctively sniffs the aroma of the heavy red-purple buds just barely hinting to unfold.

Nestled in the cozy unincorporated Riverside County community of Idyllwild is a haven of sights, sounds and fragrances. Welcome to the Idyllwild Lilac Garden, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles ...

Shrubs like hydrangeas and lilacs can be started from cuttings, but they require some work and a lot of patience. Cuttings can take 8 to 12 weeks to root and several years to reach blooming size.

Then, this weekend, Art in the Park and Small Business Circle return with dozens of local vendors. On Sunday morning, runners will take the streets for the Lilac Run 5K and 10K.

John Salmon, of Antioch, knows what El Niño means for his garden. This lilac bush in his small backyard garden hadn’t bloomed for two years. Now it’s putting on a show, and the rest of the ...

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, ...

The Small Business Circle runs at the same time as Art in the Park, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both Saturdays and from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. both Sundays. The festival itself runs until 8:30 p.m. each day ...