Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heather Trilling of Trilling Landscape Design & Build says that common lilacs (arguably the most popular variety) are beloved for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. May is lilac season, and ...

Lilacs are very popular shrubs thanks to their beautiful, fragrant flowers that bloom in late spring. Come fall, that peak performance is behind them, so thoughts may turn to what you can do to help ...

Mackinac’s lilac love runs deep. But what makes them so special? Some of the oldest lilacs in the United States grow here.

Somehow it’s May, and I hope you, unlike me, have already planted your warm-season veggies. As usual, I bought too many tomato plants and, as I write this in late April, they are still sitting on a ...

Cutting off dead and damaged wood and controlling the number of stems on the shrub are vital to lilac care. Left unpruned, mature lilacs become choked with old wood and deadwood and produce few ...

Every spring, it happens almost overnight: lilac bushes burst into bloom and suddenly, people are stopping mid-walk just to smell their wonderful fragrance. For a lot of us, that scent instantly takes ...

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 ...

Lilacs are an icon of spring, blooming in shades from deep purple to pale lavender to white all over the Chicago area. Yet lilac bushes can be monsters. Hardy and resilient, a lilac can live for many ...