If you want to give your lilac bushes an additional boost to keep them healthy and grow beautiful lavender flowers, try adding this common household staple.

Lavender plants offer fragrance, color, and charm for both indoor and outdoor spaces. The article explores eight beautiful ...

This year, the National Garden Bureau, founded in 1920, designated 2022 the year of the lilac. There’s a nostalgia associated with the bush, part of the olive family.

Many people have cherished memories of time spent in their grandma or great-grandma's garden -- beautiful, sunny days spent on the porch drinking lemonade, eating snap-peas right out of the shell, and ...

With a deft, strong flip of her wrist, Elizabeth Billet wrenches a branch from a 7-foot-tall lilac bush, then instinctively sniffs the aroma of the heavy red-purple buds just barely hinting to unfold.

Lilacs remind me of my childhood home. The backyard there is divided by a row of mature bushes. The line of lilacs, some as tall as 15 feet, include dark purple ones, lavender ones and white ones ...

You can ask for these at area nurseries, or use your quest for dark-purple lilacs as an excuse to visit the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens, open to the public and located at 115 S. Pekin Road ...

I have a confession to make. I'm a lilac thief. And I'm not alone. I picked up the habit from my mother a few years ago, when I was visiting her in Vancouver. The maximum fine for stealing lilacs ...