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SYRINGA
Commonly known as Lilac
The epitome of the English garden, not just in old vicarages, in thousands of old cottage gardens in May the lilac is in bloom.
Genus of about 20 species of deciduous trees and shrubs from woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia. Tubular flowers are attractive to long-tongued insects.
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Deciduous
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Medium shrubTypically grow to around 4-6 feet in height
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Tall Shrub
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Full sun
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Additional Features
Good to knowGrown for, usually, very fragrant small tubular flowers in pyramidal or conical clusters. Deadhead newly-planted lilacs before fruit forms. Prompt deadheading thereafter produces more blooms. S. vulgaris will tolerate hard renovation pruning.
Pests & DiseasesLilac blight, honey fungus, leaf miners, thrips
Place of originSoutheastern Europe to eastern Asia -
Scented PlantsScented flowersS. emodi has unpleasant scent. S. vulgaris is very fragrant..
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Soil ConditionsAlkaline / Chalk lovingFertile well drained soilNeutral to alkaline soil
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Wildlife
Bee friendlyRabbit Resistant
Buy Varieties of SYRINGA
SYRINGA meyeri 'Palibin'
slow growing compact variety with panicles of pink-mauve flowers in profusion from an early age
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA microphylla 'Superba'
dainty scented lilac flowers borne in profusion
SYRINGA pinnatifolia
a very unusual species which deserves to be more widely known if only because it looks so unlike a lilac. White or lavender tinted flowers in small panicles in May and long pinnate leaves with 7-11 leaflets
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA prestoniae 'Minuet'
a compact and mounded but highly floriferous variety with pink buds opening to paler pink
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA tomentella
sweetly scented pale lilac-pink flowers which fade with age in terminal panicals
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Carpe Diem'
a startling new introduction with pinkish-mauve semi-double flowers opening first a delicate light blue and then fading to light mauve
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Charles Joly'
double red-purple
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Katherine Havemeyer'
double lavender-blue flowers from purple buds
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Madame Antoine Buchner'
deep red buds opening to pale pink double flowers with strong sweet fragrance
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Madame Lemoine'
double white
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Michel Buchner'
double mauve
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Primrose'
single pale yellow
Gift-wrapping available
SYRINGA vulgaris 'Sensation'
prominent white edging to the reddish-purple flowers
Gift-wrapping available
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