By removing the old flower, the plant will send its energy into developing the bud instead of the seed heads. If you have a lilac bush that needs to be scaled down, now is the best time to do it.

Lilac blossoms are a sign spring season is well underway, with your garden beginning to put on displays of color and fragrance. The large white, pink, and purple flowers of well-cared-for lilacs ...

Lilacs bloom for several weeks, can be single or double and come in a variety of colors such as violet, red, blue, pink, lilac, purple, yellow and white. To prolong their bloom, grow a variety of ...

The leaves are much smaller than a regular lilac and are dark green. The blooms start off as reddish-purple buds opening into pale pink. The bloom is profuse on healthy shrubs.

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 ...

To get a large number of the shrubs into production, the Lilac Society paid Briggs Nursery in Olympia to propagate 1,200 starts. The Spokane was registered as a cultivar at the end of 2003.

The purple and pink flowers are ready just in time for the Lilac Festival and to usher in spring in the Lilac City. Surprisingly, lilac bushes are not native to Spokane.