Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One great thing to love about beautiful blooming trees is the welcome shade they offer come summer. In addition, they also provide ...

In this stressful spring, we’ve been cheered by the bright blooms of flowering shrubs and ornamental trees such as forsythia, quince, viburnum, lilac, cherry, crabapple and redbud. If these plants ...

Toward the middle to the end of spring the unmistakable scent of lilacs begins to fill the air. A staple of cottage gardens, they have an aura of nostalgia with a sweet scent touched with subtle hints ...

Lilacs are the fragrant stars of any sensory garden with their alluring scent and brilliant flower clusters in various shades of pink, magenta, and purple. It's not surprising, then, that the lilac is ...

Almost as American as apple pie, lilacs were first cultivated in this country by the founding fathers–both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington made entries in their journals about their preferred ...

Garden centers typically display plants by their types – trees, shrubs, perennials, vegetables, and so on. Gardeners, on the other hand, aren’t always looking for particular plants or plant types.

At garden centers, on garden tours, over dinner and in emails, people are asking about a tree with fragrant white flowers. It's a Japanese lilac tree (Syringa reticulata), a gorgeous beauty that ...

Ivor Novello’s famous song promised ‘We’ll gather lilacs in the spring’ – and you could be doing just that in your own garden with this reader offer. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

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