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 ...

The common lilac is not a particularly lovely plant when it is not in blossom. As it ages, it looses lower limbs and you're pretty much left with a crown of foliage up high.

Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...

The most familiar species is common lilac (Syringa vulgaris), a plant from the Balkans that is popular around the world and has been planted in Chicago-area gardens since the 19th century.

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 ...

Since common lilac is a big shrub or a small tree, growing 8 to 20 feet tall and almost as wide, it can simply be too much shrub for smaller yards. Fortunately, there are alternatives, ...

Several years ago, Dr. Don Egolf of the U.S. National Arboretum started a breeding program that used S. vulgaris (the common lilac) and S. oblata (the early lilac) as parents.

Depending on who is counting, some 400 to 900 varieties of common lilac are "around." Not that many are in commerce by a long shot, but that many have been identified.

Most are from Asia, but two are from Southeastern Europe, including the common lilac, S. vulgaris, from which the majority of the 1,600-plus known cultivars get part of their genetics.