Mae asks: What is the difference between a Korean lilac and a French lilac? Answer: Syringa vulgaris, or common lilac, grows up to 20 feet tall. Varieties of the common lilac are referred to as French ...

A mass of Goat's Rue (also known as French Lilac), the medicinal herb that led to metformin. Source: Caroline Eastwood/Alamy Stock Photo. Used with permission. French lilac is a perennial plant with ...

I got an email from one of my readers a couple of weeks ago who has enjoyed my column for a number of years, and she asked me whether she should prune her lilac now and how she should go about pruning ...

Late April and early May in the Northwest are high season for all kinds of lilacs. They are coming into full bloom and their heavenly fragrance is enough to put even this cantankerous gardener into a ...

Did you know that the life expectancy of lilacs is 350 years or more? Lilacs planted by French missionaries in 1650 on Michigan's Mackinac Island are the oldest surviving lilacs in America. Lilacs not ...

Q. The three Miss Kim lilacs and six French lilac trees on our property have never bloomed. They look healthy and have been in the ground for several years. Even though we have many trees on our ...