IF you’ve recently been to a garden centre and bought yourself a gorgeous hanging basket, you’ll need to listen up. Many of ...

Drive along most county backroads, especially ones sprinkled with old farms, and you’ll come across plenty of large lilac ...

If you have a lilac bush and want to enjoy its aromatic flowers longer, whip up a simple syrup to add to spring cocktails and ...

Horsehair worms can grow up to a foot long and manipulate host insects — and sometimes show up in toilets — but are harmless ...

My neighbor Heather informed me last week that her lilac died. I was not aware that they had a lilac tree, but I offered my ...

Idaho’s climate is perfect for lilac growth with its chilly winters and slightly alkaline soil which aid in their blooming.

But lilacs do not belong in pots. The cramped space is too stressful on their root systems, which twist and dig and ...

Gary Parton has cultivated different varieties of the flower at his home, inviting the public to experience his Idyllwild Lilac Garden every year. This could be its last.

Easily recognized by their sweet fragrance and cone-shaped clusters of tiny flowers, the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) has ...

Lamoille County has finally caught up with Chittenden County with the blossoming of the flowering trees and bushes. A number of trees and bushes blossomed this past week in our ...

I look forward to daily checking my mail because of the lilac bush by the mailbox. It is an old bush, planted a few generations ago, and produces an abundance of purple blooms during April and May.

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be ...