
Common Lilac
- Botanical Name
- Syringa vulgaris
- Min Zone
- 3
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 8 to 15 feet
- Width
- 6 to 12 feet
- Flowers
- May: white, cream, purple-pink, rose; fragrant
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Prune after flowering
- Prune out older wood for improved air circulation and vigor
- Problems
- Powdery mildew, bacterial blight, borers, scale, frost injury
- Varieties
- Sensation - bicolor, purple flowers edged in white
- Lavender Lady - very fragrant, profuse flowers
- Katherine Havemeyer - good pink flowering type, 12 feet
- Charles Joy - purple buds that open to magenta flowers
- President Lincoln - flowers close to true blue
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