It’s my favorite time of year—when the spring breeze picks up the heady, ambrosial perfume of our fleeting lilacs. We open all the windows in our house and let our fluffy backyard bushes waft through ...

Lilacs should be pruned annually as part of your spring/summer garden maintenance checklist. If your lilac bush is overgrown, it can withstand more rigorous pruning for rejuvenation. Lilac growth is ...

Lilac bushes are not only fragrant, but they also add interest and color to any landscape, re-blooming year after year. Known as some of the hardiest shrubs around ...

One of the signature indicators of spring is the gently wafting scent of the common lilac (syringa vulgaris). I look forward to daily checking my mail because of the lilac bush by the mailbox. It is ...

Many plants benefit from some type of pruning, whether it's a conservative reshaping or a harder cut to rejuvenate. One plant that benefits greatly from pruning is the lilac shrub. Over time, lilacs ...

Q: I have two well-established lilac bushes that always did well with minimal care until about two years ago. I used to water them for 2 to 3 minutes every day, but stopped doing that at one point.

A light-skinned man and a baby inspect a lilac bush in bloom - Olga Zheltonogova/Getty Images When lilacs open their fragrant flowers, it's nature's signal that summer's here. It's hard to have enough ...

Q: I have a marvelous large old lilac bush in the backyard that continues to grow well for me year after year. I wasn’t paying enough attention to it this past year, and a volunteer trumpet vine ...

If your lilacs are looking rough right now, it is probably lilac leaf spot, a relatively new fungal disease in Minnesota. Symptoms typically appear from July to September. Leaves turn yellow, then ...