Not only are our gardens bursting with color right now, they are also giving off heavenly fragrances that sweep away the last vestiges of winter doldrums and COVID blues. Right now, Spokane’s namesake ...

Lilacs are one of spring's most beautiful and short-lived blooms. While the shrubs stick around year after year, the flowers have a short bloom time of one to two weeks in the spring. However, ...

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 ...

I have a very large, beautiful lilac bush. It's about 11 years old and 15 feet high. This year I cut numerous branches off of it where all of the leaves were completely dry. On other parts, the leaves ...

Welcome to the lilac season. For the next month or so Syringa vulgaris will grab attention as we travel around, entice us on our walks and delight us in vases. Can things get any better? Lilacs are a ...

It seems lilacs always have been in one part of my mother’s garden as it was with my grandmother. Most of the time you really don’t think much of the things that normally are a part of your life. I ...

Nothing takes me back to the Midwestern pastoral of my youth quite like the smells of springtime: freshly cut grass with an edge of lawnmower fuel, the sweet ozone of an imminent thunderstorm. Most of ...

I hate to be repetitive, but I guess this is the nature of a garden column that centers on what you should be doing from week to week and spans some years. New readers arrive and ask the questions ...

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QI have a large maple tree in my back yard with a branch span of maybe 40 feet. It has a fair amount of above-ground roots. Am I safe covering up some of the roots to make the ground even to plant ...

Lilac Time is officially underway in Lombard through May 15. But this year, mother nature hasn't been fully cooperating with the signature festival of "The Lilac Village." The Lombard Park District ...

A research team has unveiled the molecular mechanism behind the fading of lilac (Syringa oblata) flowers, a long-standing mystery in ornamental plant biology. The ...